Hello forum friends-
Many have asked in the past few years if any recordings of Letrita existed? In the days following her passing, Her son discovered several old 78 RPM transcription discs with some rare vintage performances, recorded in the mid-1930s thru the early 1940s.
Links to which are provided above.
I'm sure that Letritia would be overjoyed to know that the steel guitar community is now able to hear recordings of her work from long ago.
Enjoy!
PW
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For anyone interested, the "Talking Steel Guitar" was invented and used by Alvino Rey in his big Pop Band back in the 30's. Google Alvino Rey and you can see old movies of Alvino and the Talking Guitar.
Paul and John, Thanks very much for all the great work and dedication you have done to preserve
the life work of this great lady and musician.
Those tracks are priceless.
Maybe she also influenced Alvino Rey?
Blake
Farewell Blues has all of Alvino Rey's tricks in it, including pedals, and talking guitar.. then the announcer says "Thank you Alvino Rey" so I don't think that is Letricia. (...same on Stormy Weather)
An error was made and it was detected by Earnest B., apparently the recordings with the Navy Pier Dance Band were performed with Alvino Rey and have been removed so as not to appear as Letritia Kandle's work.
Letritia told me that she played many concerts in aid of the War Bond effort, these shows were also broadcast on the radio. Undoubtedly Alvino Rey also played for the War Bond effort.
Her son mentioned something about one disc without a label or having an illegible label. I will notify her son Bill of the mistake.
PW
I wish to find out did Letritia play on the Paul Whiteman LP on the Grand Award Label "Hawaiian Magic" 1956
There were 2 Versions, original GA 33-208.... 33-356 (Had 2 extra tracks) is it Letritia Kandle
Hi Basil,
According to Paul Warnik, who spoke to Letritia extensively about her career, by 1954 she had left the music business, so its unlikely that she was on the record you mention unless the recording session took place a year or two before the release.
John Norris
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Thanks for posting this, I had almost given up hope on hearing these. Let us know when you take them out of dropbox, and I'll make them available elsewhere.
Mr. Norris, thank you very much. Excellent! Hey Anthony Lis, it's Bob in Nashville - you won't remember me but Hey.
Here's a recap of photos that have been posted before. To get a perspective of those times, when Letitia Kandle was appearing at Orchestra Hall Tuesday, June 11, 1946, 10 days later, "Jazz at the Philharmonic" with Prez,
Hawk, Shadow Wilson & Co. would be at the Opera House a mile away on the river.
I do remember you . . . back in early spring 2019, before I retired from teaching at South Dakota State University, you kindly sent me a copy of the Sherraden, Horvarth, and Kingsbury book on the history of Hatch Snow Print, in thanks for photocopying the articles I wrote for the British West Midlands-based publication "Aloha Dream" on Jimmie Rodgers's ten different steel guitarists. Glad to do that, and I thank you again for the book, which I looked at again a few weeks ago.
Trying to be helpful. It's not great to post links that will die. Links that are IP addresses will die most quickly. My myspace page still sort of works, but that's not where I would post anything I would like to last. Terse statements, but just trying to get to the point. I wanted to hear this, but I cannot.
Anthony, Thanks again for replying and also for providing your "Aloha Dream" newsletter's Jimmie Rodgers's articles. I can't tell you how helpful this has been. It started me researching how the steel got into hillbilly music. This led me to document and write chapters on the first steel players to work Nashville (Hawaiian Vaudevillians and the locals).
I'm trying to cut down text on the first Hawaiians to fit into an SGF post. I thought it be fun to look back for a second, in light of the current boom in the Nashville entertainer industry.
Thanks again, Anthony. The SGF has always been a primary source for steel guitar history.
Moonbeams! I was just thinking about having a look at the post from a few years back and the reconstruction and boink there it is - what a treat Thanks so much for posting this
I was just thinking about having a look at the post from a few years back and the reconstruction and boink there it is - what a treat Thanks so much for posting this 
