[78-L] Mills Blue Rhythm to PAUL PENDARVIS?

[David Lennick]

MacGregor goes WAY back, to the early 30s, originally as MacGregor & Sollie. 
And they were still producing Heartbeat Theater in the 80s, I think..

dl

Harold Aherne wrote:
> Pendarvis was at the Aragon and the Trianon in Chicago in Jan-Feb 1938, 
> according to Chicago Tribune articles of the time. His 11/34 and 2/35 recordings
> have C-matrix numbers; the ones made later have the SF prefix. Dunno if the C
> stands for Chicago, since I don't have the ADBD handy, and the numbers are
> in an 800-900 sequence rather than the usual ARC series of the time. It 
> looks like the Ted Weems sides in the same series were done in Chicago.
>  
> When was MacGregor in operation? Inquiring minds...
>  
> -Harold
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/3/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Blue Rhythm to PAUL PENDARVIS?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 6:23 PM
> 
> Hmm...Id' read this in Klink but had forgotten.  I've never seen any
> other 
> mention of his "long run in KC or any of those other places.  I'm not
> saying 
> Klink is wrong,  but I know that Pendarvis mostly stuck to the coast,  where 
> all of his records were made (I think...too lazy to go in the other room to 
> look in Rust).
> 
> He made the handful of Columbias but most of his records (several dozen) 
> were for the not-sold-to-public MacGregor,  used for radio broadcasts. 
> Those are his best records....just as some of the the Anson Weeks MacGregors 
> are his best sides.
> 
> Thanks for digging up that info,  Al.
> 
> Taylor
> 
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