[78-L] Quoting Ginger Rogers and ignoring Glenn Miller

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Wed Jan 21 16:43:49 PST 2009


David Weiner wrote:
 > The Miller soundtrack recordings were issued for the first time
 > by RCA on LP in 1954 and by 20th Century Fox in 1959. Dave W.

But it had already been out on 78.  RCA Victor 27934 recorded May 20, 
1942 on  072285-1

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuI64Cr35TU   shows it  being played 
from Spanish HMV GY 659. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


> The list shows a big gap between 1942 and 1957.  Certainly there were dozens
>
> of recordings made between those years, not the least of which was a charted
>
> version by Ray Anthony in 1952.  Here are some possible others from that 
> missing time period.
>
> DeCastro Sisters
> Four Freshmen
> Sil Austin?
> Leroy Holmes
> Beltran?
>
> Any others?
> Ray(I was so outraged I was beside myself)K 





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