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  Cliff Edwards had an awareness of jazz rhythms and dynamics that enabled him to span the changeover from acoustic to electrical recordings and compete with the new generation of singers that came up in the late 1920s. Taking liberties with the beat and tempo, altering the chord structures of songs, swinging and even scatting, he continually showed himself to be a daring, inventive vocalist. A star of early Hollywood musicals, Edwards went on to become a fine character actor, and is probably best known to modern audiences as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio.
From Lady Be Good; (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin); Cliff Edwards, aka "Ukulele Ike," vocal, accompanied by own ukulele and unknown studio group; Rec. New York, December 1924. Pathe 78 RPM 025130 (mx 105715); Originally Released 1924
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