[78-L] Actors on record

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 17 06:52:01 PST 2008


Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> At 04:46 PM 12/7/2008, you wrote:
>> Like the Warren Zevon song..."my brain is like a sieve."  I coulda swored
>> that one side was Service.  Oh well...
>>
>> Does anyone have some sort of check list or discography of movie actors who
>> made records in the 30s and 40s?  I don't mean big timers like Alice Faye,
>> Dorothy Lamour,   Bob Hope, Jane Russell, etc....but the lesser lights
>> usually on smaller labels.
>>
>> I have 40s 78s by Hope Emerson,  Gloria Stuart,  Frank Orth,  etc.  One of
>> my faves is the Jack Carson Capitol of   "That Was a Big Fat Lie."
>>
>> Taylor B
> 
> Somewhere in my huge record collection I've got two 78 RPM copies of 
> Basil Rathbone doing The Murder Of Lidice. I think it's on Columbia 
> but I don't remember the record number offhand or what year it was released.
> 
November 1942, I believe..no orchestra, just a choir.

dl



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