[78-L] Pairing artists for greater sales

[Harold Aherne]

How about
Aileen Stanley and Gene Austin on "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street"
Aileen Stanley and Johnny Marvin on a number of sides
Marion Harris and Billy Murray in 1917
 
and as long as we're counting vocalists with dance bands, I *think* I recall seeing
Turner Layton and Morton Downey listed as vocalists for the S.S. Leviathan
Orchestra, a group that recorded for Victor in 1923-24. If I'm remembering right,
then Layton may be the first African-American performer to sing with a white band.
 
By the way, who is this Marcia Freer who appeared on Victor in 1924? She made 
some solos, some dance band refrains, and a few sides each with Henry Burr and 
Lewis James, but I can't find much else on her, other than a few radio listings 
from 1930 for broadcasts she made that year.
 
-Harold

--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Pairing artists for greater sales
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:46 PM

RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
> The Dinah Shore/Dick Todd pairing was pre-RCA but I think it was on 
> Bluebird, so it still doesn't count as a Victor.
> RayK 
>   

RCA took over Victor in 1929.  This record was recorded and/or released 
before 1929????????????

I don't think so.

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com 
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