The recordings in Sita Sings the Blues Annette Hanshaw sounds great, but the ones I’ve been able to sample online sound like 78s. 
Can anyone recommend some CDs?
Ever heard of Amazon? I have a few of these discs, and they’re mostly pretty good.
But they all *sound *like 78s because they all **are **78s. She only recorded for a few years in the late 1920s and early 1930s, long before magnetic tape and 33 rpm LPs. There are, sadly, no hi-fi recordings of Annette.
I first heard of Annette thanks to Nina, too. I’ve know her for more than ten years, and a few years ago she gave me a tape of the first bit of Sita she animated, set to “Mean to Me,” which is still my favorite of Annette’s songs.
She sounds so good in * Sita Sings the Blues,* though. Where did she get that?
The ones on the Sensation label are very good - you can get them here, here and here. The remastering is very good - I believe it was done by John R.T. Davies. Of the three, my favorite is Volume 6. The people at Sensation intended to re-issue everything that Hanshaw recorded, but all they ever did was these three volumes.
Thanks!
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I have the Twenties Sweetheart disc and am very pleased. I’d like to have more, like “Button Up Your Overcoat” and “I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling,” but I just can’t justify right now having four versions of “Cooking Breakfast for the One I Love” when I already have Fanny Brice doing it. Plus, when you have Annette singing Six Feet of Papa, you have the pinnacle.
You could try here.
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Annette%20Hanshaw
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E-Music has a pretty good selection of Annette Hanshaw recordings.
Thanks, SirPrize!
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