Just the fakes, Ma'am. Enoch Light and His Orch.: "Dragnet" (Prom 1056)

I found this moderately battered 78 in an antique store no longer in existence.  It's been at least ten, maybe fifteen, years.  I made no attempt to pretty-up the label.  I wanted to keep the scan factual.  Nothing has been changed to protect the innocent.

Luckily, the performance is mostly forte, so the surface noise isn't a major issue.  This is an extremely good copy of the Ray Anthony hit–maybe better.  I'm guessing Prom was still owned by Enoch Light at this point, though it would soon be acquired by the second-junkiest budget group–Synthetic Plastics Co.  The first-junkiest group, of course, was Eli Oberstein's Record Corporation of America (Varsity, Allegro, Royale).  Nothing this good-sounding would have been allowed in that group.

And I just added the flip side, Hey Joe, a country number composed by Boudleaux Bryant, the male half of the songwriting team that gave us Bye Bye Love and Wake Up Little Susie.  It was a hit for Carl Smith, with Frankie Laine covering it.  Here we have Artie Malvin mimicking the latter singer, and very well.

Enjoy!

DOWNLOAD: Dragnet/Hey Joe–Enoch Light and His Orch., prob. 1953

Vocal, side B: Artie Malvin.

Lee

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