#vet boswell

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“Three Little Girls From N'awlins…” Pt. 5

Everyone has favorites, and I figured out of the relatively large output on record the Boswells had, I would post some of my absolute favorites in this chapter.

Why are these my faves? They showcase the jaw-dropping vocal gymnastics they were capable of, as well as the inventiveness of their arrangements.

[ramrodd]

The Genius of the Gospel of Luke

COMMENTARY:

A question Giggles avoids is where the fuck Luke comes from to takes center stage in the Christ narrative? Everybody agrees Luke is Greek. At the time the Gospels were  being assembled, it was dangerous to be identified as a Christian in Rome beginning instantly when Tiberius proposed to elevate Jesus to the Roman Pantheon, based on the intelligence report form Pilate regarding the Talking Cross. Lo, his name may not have been,  literally, "Luke" but was a trade name like John LeCarre that identified the contents without revealing the author, Luke is writing an intelligence report via Cornelius to Theophilus as a research project.. Luke maintains a journal as a trained physician that begins to capture the  travels of Paul as Paul's Boswell from Acts 16 until Paul's arrival in Rome. It has always been my understanding that the Acts of the Apostles began as a amicus brief as part of Paul's defense before the Praetorian Guard  which vetted established his innocence and justification for appealing to Nero. I don['t know how the relationship between the Italian Regiment to the actual presentation of the appeal at the Justice Seat, It mever got that far, The Praetorian Guard knew all about Jesus available from Peter's relationship with Cornelius as Christians. The point of the Talking Cross is that Elohim the verb performed a covenant with the Italian Regiment as the divine endorsement of the separation of church and state the Republic, as the administrative state of the Roman Empire.  Christian Soldiers of the 10th Legion participated in the investment and reduction of Jerusalem in 70 CE. The Christian soldiers of the 10th Legion crushed the Whore of Babylon as an instrument of God's Will,  The centurion in Mark 15:39 is part of the 10th Legion, Cornelius is the senior centurion in Palestine, the equivalent of the Command Sergeant Major of the Caesarea Command, and Pilate's military Chief of Staff. He was a member of the Italian Regiment and was either assigned to Palestine or voluntarily seconded to the command as his retirement planning. He was putting down roots because the living was like the Med, today, So, when Paul is remanded to Caesarea, Luke cam along for the ride and Peter took him to Cornelius, who was the curator of Quelle and the executive editor of the Gospel of Mark, a trade name, St, Mark  of Alexandria establishes the first Christian publishing house and produces 90% of the manuscripts we have before the 4th Century and Constantine, St. Mark is the author of the Gospel of John, as a disambiguation with the Gospel of Mark, which is the trade mark of the publishing house. John Mark is St. Mark, all grown up and busy spreading the word about Hellenistic Judaism of Jesus. So, Luke is brought to Cornelius and he is commissioned by Theophilus to  research all things Jesus, beginning with Acts 10, Luke is given open access to Quelle, which he supplements with personal interviews with Mary of Nazareth, mother of  James, in particular., And this interview, in particular, should raise the literary question: How the fuck did Luke get hooked up with Paul? People who complain that Acts is not history don't know shit. Luke's real-time journalism begins in Acts 16 and continues to the end of the affidavit, Everything that happens before that, the the narrative that beings in the presence of the Risen Lord, is recreated by Luke in the same way Truman Capote recreated In Cold Blood, You don't have to harmonize shit to reach this conclusion but the resulting harmonics are irresistible, It's like when people stand, spontaneously, when the Halleluiah Chorus collides with the despair of the  hasty burial,   .   But why does Luke appear in a Jewish melodrama at all?  Paul remained a devoted Jew: Pauline Theology is Jesus Judaism for dummies. He doesn't leave the reservation but remains faithful to the tenets of his heritage.   Why Luke? I'll give you a hint: Mark 5:25 - 34,

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As a brunette, too...!

That's a very '30s look, partly brought on the scene by these "three little girls from New Orleans", with their matching spit-curls, The Boswell Sisters: Martha, Connie and Vet.

America's Sweethearts during the harsh early '30s. So popular they sold out Broadway, they travelled to Holland, and were even immortalized in what looks like a Fleischer Brothers cartoon short of the day, but I have not been able to find the source of the clip!

Fay Wray

[andronetalks]

Marine vet breaks 14-year silence to make astonishing claim that his six-man unit saw a hovering octagonal UFO being loaded with WEAPONS ...

Daily Mail News UK By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 14:39 EDT, 9 June 2023 | UPDATED: 14:40 EDT, 9 June 2023 A former Marine claims he and five comrades saw a flying saucer being loaded with weapons while serving in Indonesia in 2009 – and was threatened at gunpoint by unmarked US forces at the scene. The wild story comes after an Air Force whistleblower from the…

[thomaslips]

The Boswell Sisters

[jwclapton]

The Boswell Sisters

From left to right: Vet, Connie & Martha Boswell

[diyeipetea]

JazzX5#363. O Sister!: "The Boswell Sisters Song" [Nobody Cares (Blue Asteroid Records, 2020)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz

JazzX5#363. O Sister!: “The Boswell Sisters Song” [Nobody Cares (Blue Asteroid Records, 2020)] [Minipodcast de jazz] Por Pachi Tapiz

“The Boswell Sisters Song” O Sister!: Nobody Cares (Blue Asteroid Records, 2020) Paula Padilla, Helena Amado, Marcos Padilla, Matías Comino, Camilo Bosso, Pablo Cabra. El tema es una composición de Matías Comino y Paula Padilla con letra de Cynthia C. Lucas. © Pachi Tapiz, 2021 Fabulosa la letra de Cynthia C. Lucas revisando la carrera de The Boswell Sisters… y magnífica la interpretación de O…

[supinternets]

Boswell sisters. I've recently become obsessed with their music.

[delux2222]

Happy Birthday, Connee Boswell (1907-1979)

with sisters, Martha and Vet

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“Three Little Girls From N'awlins…” Pt. 4

The Boswell Sisters were unlike the singing trios that came before them. Martha, the oldest, played the piano, while Connie, the next oldest (who could not walk) sat next to her, while Vet (Helvetia), the youngest, stood directly behind and between them. This was their "standard formation" when making public appearances or recording. It is how America really came to know them, via their appearance in "The Big Broadcast" in 1932, with Bing Crosby and a host of others.

They shot two songs for that film: a shortened version of their "good luck tune" Heebie Jeebies, and "Crazy People". This version of Heebie Jeebies was featured in the first commercial American television telecast, as well.

They begin "Crazy People" with a slightly altered version of their "shout sister" signature while the announcer introduces them:

You'll see as we go along that Hollywood just didn't quite know what to DO with the Boswells. That Connie couldn't stand or walk was something they went to GREAT LENGTHS to hide. She would either be seated next to Martha, or as in this next clip from "Moulin Rouge" (1934) even ON the piano!

Those "french maid" get-ups were actually made out of VINYL, and they couldn't move freely, thus Vet's "arms hanging limp" stance! Vet said they were so incredibly stiff she HAD to stand like that!

In this next clip, from the film "Transatlantic Merry Go Round" they were in rowboats for "Rock and Roll" (historically the first use of the term!).

And in this clip, also from Transatlantic Merry Go Round, all we see are the girls seemingly standing together. In reality, Martha and Vet are supporting Connie as THEY stand. The clip begins at the 40 minute mark:

Other than a few one-off promo films early on, that pretty much is everything they did together on film.

One of those early films was a short called "Close Farmony", which is corny as all get-out, but marks the only appearance of Connie "walking" (actually supporting herself with her arms).

And one last little tidbit of film, a promo by Brunswick, featuring a song that they did not officially record! The song is "Louisiana Waddle":

They would also make a "Screen Songs" (Fleischer Bros) film for their song "Sleepy Time Down South", which Fleischer Bros built a cartoon around the song. Here is the full cartoon; you'll note that it starts off with their "good luck signature" of the Shout,Sister introduction.

There are a few other extremely rare clips which I have seen, but am not at liberty to post, as they have never been officially re-released or published in the modern era. This includes a very strange little clip with the three of them doing an interview that morphs in to a surreal little story involving a lion (?)!

[detrixsta]

The Boswell Sisters (Connee, Vet & Martha) perform their song "Rock and Roll" from the film "Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round" Released on November 02, 1934. The orchestra is Jimmie Grier's, who also performed the backup on their commercial (Brunswick) recording. Written by Richard A. Whiting & Sidney Clare, "Rock and Roll" sometimes gets credited as an early use of the term in a popular song, although in this case the lyrics referred to the motion of the ocean. Earlier songs from the 1920's had made use the term before this.... (for example:"My Daddy Rocks Me With a Steady Roll" etc.) Never-the-less, a Fun number!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

I wouldn't say NDP is a non factor in Brampton Centre because Provincially they were elected here in the last election but Christ on a cracker, vet these people better... now I gotta vote for Boswell if I want Jagmeet to win.

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[jwclapton]

The Boswell Sisters

From left to right: Vet, Connie & Martha Boswell

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Depression Era Darlings, The Boswell Sisters, were America’s Sweethearts a decade before the Andrews Sisters.  Martha, Connie, and Vet (Helvetia) were classically trained, and wrote their own arrangements.  They were a source of badly needed “good times are coming again” cheer.

My personal fave of their “antidepression” songs^^^

Depression era cartoon.

[satedanfire]

The gorgeous Boswell Sisters. Martha ( June, 9, 1905 - July, 2, 1958), Connee ( Dec, 3, 1907 - Oct, 11, 1976) Helvetia "Vet"( May, 20, 1911 - Nov, 12, 1988)

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"Three Little Girls From N'awlins..." Pt. 1

On a late night in March 1931, in New York City, a trio of singing sisters from New Orleans went into the Brunswick studios to record their first record for the lable.

The "house band" at Brunswick was composed of a pair of young brothers and their jamming buddies; the young brothers were Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. Also there were Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang, and others who would go on to great heights in the Jazz world.

By 1931, recording technology had become "electrified", with microphones to catch the notes, rather than the primitive horns of the recordings of the '20s. It was worlds better, as far as capturing the sound and the overall "vibe" of the musicians.

The girls, Martha, Connie, and Vet (short for "Helvetia") Boswell, were savvy to the music via the classical training they received as youngsters. They grew up singing together, and began improvising and doing their own arrangements of tunes that defied convention.

Tempo changes, rhythm changes, key changes, modulations from major to minor and back again, unusual percussion, syncopated scat-singing, and seeming endless (and UTTERLY NEW!) harmonic creativity, all in the span of three minutes or less.

The girls and the band had never worked together before. The Boswells had made some radio transcriptions in 1930 that consisted of just them and Martha's piano playing, a couple with an orchestra, so this would be their first time playing with a full "jazz band".

The first tune they put down on shellac 78 that night was an old tune called "When I Take My Sugar To Tea". The flip side of the record would be a tune called "What'ja Do To Me?". The girls outlined their arrangement and off they all went.

When they finished "Sugar To Tea", the band stood up and gave the girls a standing ovation right there in the studio.

One take. Flawless and inspired.

This 78 RPM bit of shellac would become the springboard for some of the greatest musical careers of all time, and put The Boswell Sisters on the map, world-wide.

So...with no further ado, here is the record that launched these "three little girls from N'awlins" to international stardom, and into the hearts of Americans, becoming "America's Sweethearts" during the Great Depression: