[78-L] Bart Woodyard

[Taylor Bowie]

Bart Woodyard was a Portland,  Oregon based dance band leader who made a 
slew of regular dance sides for MacGregor in 1936 and 1937.  It was a 
generally very sweet band from what I can tell from the records I have...the 
stray sides which were issued on Columbia were not typical of their recorded 
output.

About a year ago I interviewed a local (Seattle) musician named Milt Kleeb, 
who wrote some charts in the 40s for Boyd Raeburn and also for the Frank 
Sinatra tour with Jan Savitt.  I was surprised to learn that the first band 
he played with as a Portland high school kid was that of Bart Woodyard,  ca. 
1940.


Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?


There is a lot of variation in late '35/early '36 Columbias; one of the last 
all-blue
(i.e. blue shellac, blue label with "Columbia" *not* in all-caps) that I've 
seen offered
for auction was a Jay Randell disc, either 3112-D or 3113-D, recorded 27 
Dec. 1935.

The offerings on Columbia's -D series during 1936 are an interesting mix: 
many
British dance band sides, some material concurrently issued on Brunswick 
(like
the Fred Astaire discs) and lots of Hawaiian bands. The Mills Blue Rhythm 
Band
and a few discs by Frank Froeba and Herbie Kaye were the main dance band
material not (AFAIK) issued elsewhere, at least Stateside. Does anyone know 
who
Bart Woodyard was? His band had issues on 3149-D and 3150-D, and I've never 
seen
them offered anywhere...I don't recall his band being listed in ADBD, and 
some of the
sides look Hawaiian-oriented, but I don't know for sure.

-Harold


--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7:29 PM

I thought they all did, at least after December 1932.  The return to
black discs came at different times, as the various plants used up
their supplies of blue blanks.





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