[78-L] Info request

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Dec 8 20:08:17 PST 2008


Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Okay boys and girls..here's what I've found so far, with help from this 
>> list,
>> the Columbia books, the 1923 Victor catalog, the Brunswick books (which 
>> contain
>> one cross reference I can't find) and Ty's Online Discography (one entry 
>> of
>> which shows the composer as MORT Dixon..should be Harold Dixon). All 1922
>> except the first listing. Per the title index in the Brunswick books, 
>> there
>> should be a listing on page 510 but there isn't one (the McFarland-Gardner
>> record is correctly cross-indexed as page 610).
>>
>> And the winner for the most recordings of this song by a single artist is
>> definitely Charles Hart.
>>
>> For those who tuned in late (or before the messages began to be edited), 
>> the
>> song in question is "Call Me Back, Pal o' Mine".
>>
>>
>> Lester Mcfarland & Robert Gardner..Vocalion 5364 (August 13, 1928)
>>
>> Rega's Dance Orch..Okeh  4667
>>
>> Columbia Dance Orchestra (or as Prince's Dance Orchestra)..Columbia A-3752
>>
>> Charles Hart..Vocalion 14451b
>>
>> Charles Hart & Elliott Shaw..Brunswick 2321
>>
>> Elizabeth Spencer and Charles Hart..Edison 51085
>>
>> Charles Harrison..Victor 18944
>>
>> Charles Harrison..Columbia A 3686
>>
> Well, I don't have the Edison...nor the c&w Vocalion...but I have
> most, possibly all, the others!
> 
> ...stevenc 
> 
> ____________________________

Stay tuned..the requester may ask for a dub. I've sent this list along to him. 
I may have one or more of these as well but it's not something I'd be able to 
find without looking through a few thousand acousticals.

dl



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