[78-L] Harry Reser on Apollo

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 6 08:24:41 PST 2009


I've seen some late Resers as well, including an album in stereo on RCA. 
Possibly one on MGM as well..?? He kept going..I believe he was a member of the 
pit orchestra of Fiddler On The Roof when he died.

dl

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> Hiya everyone-
> 
> I am puzzled.  I have here a purple Apollo number 1085 of "Harry Reser's
> Jumping Jacks" (no "Six' in sight, funny enough) doing "Banjo Boogie" on one
> side and "Jazz Legato"/"Jazz Pizzicato" on the other.  When is this from?
> When was it recorded and/or issued?  It's not in the settleback discography,
> my go-to page when my Rust books fail me..  Apollo is a 40's & 50's label,
> right?  What's Reser doing on there, was he trying to stage a comeback or
> did he record throughout the 30's, 40's and 50's and I had no idea?
> 
> Clueless as usual---
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input-
> 
> Andrea
> 
> 




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