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  • REVIEW - Mickey Baker -"Oh Happy Day" - SAVOY 874;NOVEMBER 1952

    From Roger@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 20 15:19:11 2024
    REVIEW - Mickey Baker -"Oh Happy Day" - SAVOY 874;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/mickey-baker-oh-happy-day-savoy-874/#more-99548

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYw5Uyj2-go

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 2/10

    For once I'm on the same page as Samp here--except he's been kind and given it one grading too many

    Not too many songs come AWFULLER than this one!! I HATE all the 1952 versions including The Four Knights who have the most tolerable of the 1952 releases

    Even The Five Satins in their later version can't save this horrible stinker of a song!!

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  • From Bruce@21:1/5 to Roger on Sat Jan 20 16:08:25 2024
    Roger wrote:

    REVIEW - Mickey Baker -"Oh Happy Day" - SAVOY 874;NOVEMBER 1952

    https://www.spontaneouslunacy.net/mickey-baker-oh-happy-day-savoy-874/#more-99548

    YOUTUBE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYw5Uyj2-go

    SPONTANEOUS LUNACY VERDICT - 2/10

    For once I'm on the same page as Samp here--except he's been kind and given it one grading too many

    Not too many songs come AWFULLER than this one!! I HATE all the 1952 versions including The Four Knights who have the most tolerable of the 1952 releases

    Even The Five Satins in their later version can't save this horrible stinker of a song!!

    Is that Mickey singing?

    It's not particularly good, but I don't hate it like you do. I give this a 5. It's got a quaint minimalist feeling to it in the vein of "Blue Moon" by Elvis. I don't file the Four Knights version, that would be a 3 because of the production and the kind
    of put on voice that the lead singer uses. The Satins is also a 5.

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 21 10:49:03 2024
    On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 04:12:14 +0000, soulexpress@gmail.com (Dean)
    wrote:

    I'm with Bruce. It's a 5.

    For me, it's between 1 and 2.

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