[78-L] Earl Gray ~ Thelma Terry

[Taylor Bowie]

It is a fairly lively pair of sides...Rust also credits Bob Zurke on piano 
and Warren Smith on trombone who were both with Bob Crosby later on.

Does anyone know if the Rust personnel listing for these sides is legit, 
and was this a pick-up band or Thelma Terry's actual orch.?

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Tbroo at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Earl Gray Orchestra


> Thanks Taylor, this is helpful. I see that he does appear in Rust JR (at
> least a saxophonist by that name does) on a Thelma Terry session in New 
> York on
> 27 Sept 1928, for Col 1588-D  - "When Sweet Susie Goes Steppin' By" and
> "Dusky Stevedore." Sounds like a lively record.
>
> Now I'm going to go back to playing the delightfully  hokey "Destruction 
> of
> San Francisco" (Col 3490), which I just acquired  ("run for your lives!").
> Columbia's sound certainly changed after Charlie Prince  left.
>
> Tim B
>
>>>Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:21:14 -0800
> From:  "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Earl Gray  Orchestra
> To: "78-L Mail List" _78-l at klickitat.78online.com_
> (mailto:78-l at klickitat.78online.com)
>
> Just  received an e mail from a friend of mine who has done much research 
> on
> Seattle-area theater and dance band musicians and this is what he had to
> tell me about Earl Gray:
>
> Earl was a very highly-regarded alto and  C-melody soloist in Seattle pit
> orchs such as Hermie King's at the Palace Hip  and George Lipshultz's at 
> the
> Fifth Avenue. Led small dance bands into the  30s.
>
> If he is on any records,  it isn't under his own name although  he might 
> be a
> sideman with Souders,  Cole McElroy or one of the other  Seattle bands 
> which
> did record in the late 20s.
>
> Taylor B
>
> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: <Tbroo at aol.com>
> To:  <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 12:41  PM
> Subject: [78-L] Earl Gray Orchestra
>
>> Anyone know of records by  this west coast orchestra?
>>
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