RARE CALYPSO 78 MARIE BRYANT - SUEDE SHOES DEMO COPY M-

AN ULTRA-RARE ORIGINAL ONE SIDED TEST-PRESSING DEMO SAMPLE OF THIS VERY RARE CALYPSO 78 FROM MARIE BRYANT AND JACKIE BROWN'S CALYPSO KINGS

Marie Bryant

Born in New Orleans, this daughter of bandleader and longtime Apollo MC Willie Bryant, entered showbiz at 16 at the Cotton Club, had an ongoing association with Duke Ellington, appears in several films, notably The Duke Is Tops (1938), dancing in Gang War (1940) and sings On the Sunny Side of the Street in the famous jazz short Jammin' The Blues (1944), and appears as a singer in the film noir classic, Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night (1949) and in the Betty Grable musical, Wabash Avenue (1950) and in one of Elllington's soundies.  She reportedly died in 1978.

She made her British debut in April 1952 and within a month married an Indian engineering student who was 21. She gave her name as Marie Neal Bryant and her age as 34.  She was in Britain at least until 1954 and recorded both jazz and Caribbean material.  She recorded four highly regarded jazz sides with Humphrey Lyttelton and then recorded a number of calypso and mento influenced sides with both Lyragon and London from 1952 to 1954.

This is a NEAR MINT demo sample from one of the recording sessions for Decca (who issued the London Calypso sides)

THE FULL ISSUE WAS ON LONDON CALYPSO CAY 106

 

DISC DETAILS

DECCA LONDON DEMONSTRATION SAMPLE    DR 18459-1A 

TIME: 2.05

SUEDE SHOES (Luchess, Girard, Rouvre, Stellman)

MARIE BRYANT & JACKIE BROWN'S CALYPSO KINGS

CONDITION  - M-

 

A RARE CHANCE TO GET A DEMO COPY OF THIS CALYPSO 78 WHICH CHARTS THE FORTUNES OF A YOUNG ENTREPENEUR!!

 

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