[Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Singers Move

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Bob,

If this be so, then what name did she use when she worked for RCA? I will 
have someone sighted doublecheck, but I am sure they list the Anita Kerr 
Singers on the back of many albums I have.

Maybe one of the subscribers who has an album done at the RCA Nashville 
Studio B can look and tell us who it says instead of the "Anita Kerr 
Singers". Try:
Al Hirt: Honey In The Horn, Cotton Candy, Sugar Lips and That Honey Horn 
Sound
Anita Kerr: the Pop Hits, Georgia On My Mind, Genious In Harmony and Sings 
Bert Bacharach
Floyd Cramer:  many albums
Perry Como: The Scene Changes
Pete Fountain: A Taste Of Honey
Chet Atkins: Guitar Country, Our Man In Nashville, More Guitar Country etc.

Thanks!

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wolfbob" <wolfbob at csnsys.com>
To: "Vintage home and professional audio equipment from 1975 back" 
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Singers Move


> Duane,
>
> Check out:
> www.spaceagepop.com/kerr.htm
>
> According to this diatribe, Kerr didnt form the Anita Kerr Singers until 
> she left RCA and arrived in Hollywood. She stole the leads from Ray 
> Coniff.
>
> Bob
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> To: <vintage-audio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 4:24 PM
> Subject: [Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Singers Move
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What year did Anita Kerr leave the
>> RCA Nashville Studio B team for California and a 'perceived' better 
>> opportunity?
>>
>> The unique sound of her "Anita Kerr Singers" with the super tight harmony 
>> can be heard on hundreds of albums by all sorts of Artists, Country music 
>> and not. Often times even the blind dude here, with his super trained 
>> ears, has great difficulty in distinguishing the two females and the two 
>> males in the quartet, as being more than one female and one male. What a 
>> blend!
>>
>> Maybe I am mistaken here, but it seems that once she made the switch to 
>> Warner Bros., Columbia Records, she sort of faded into never neverland 
>> after a couple of years. Is this correct?
>>
>> The unique sound of the "Anita Kerr Singers", (wasn't there an Anita Kerr 
>> Quartet also?), fits beautifully into any instrumental song. Either as 
>> background harmony or as foreground singers for a verse here and there 
>> during the song. However, the quartet audience, be it Southern Gospel, 
>> Black Gospel or whatever, is small, music sales wise. When Anita Kerr and 
>> her group were doing background vocals for various musical Artists at RCA 
>> Nashville the audience was multiplied by a factor of at least ten! When 
>> at Warner Bros. is was a novelty, in a good sort of way, and the public 
>> interest came from her past with RCA, peaked at Columbia and then simply 
>> died. Hers was a specialty sound and had to stay within a strong market 
>> in order to survive.
>>
>> I do not want to call her a 'flash in the pan', or a one hit wonder', as 
>> she was certainly not! However, I think she saw Columbia as a big money 
>> and opportunity move and simply failed to realize that the special 
>> quality of her sound did not have the staying power on its own to sustain 
>> listener popularity over the longrun.
>>
>> I have some of her latter work and the sound is, well, not what the 
>> original Anita Kerr Singers generated. Frankly, as much as I lover her 
>> work, I did not care for this at all. I believe this work was only 
>> released on CD, do not wish to name it here and prejudice anyone against 
>> possibly purchasing it. You might love it.
>>
>> So when did she make the move, how long after she did make it did her 
>> popularity start to fade and what became of her? Then again, maybe she 
>> did not fade and I simply fell into a fog somewhere along Musical Alley!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
>> dfischer at usol.com
>> HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
>> http://www.w9wze.net
>> HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
>> hhrp.w9wze.net
>>
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