[78-L] 101 strings/alshire/al sherman

[don ward]

The history behind Alshire label aka Al Sherman.
Al was a one stop wholesale record dealer in Loa Angeles in the  late 40s-50s.
In the beginning of the budget lp era he started "Tempo Records", not to be confused with the 78 Tempo label. Al imported tracks from Europe of strings and things for his label.
He jumped at chance to buy the 101 strings brand and the rest is history.
Budget was the pressing plant Al started in Burbank Ca to press the 101 strings and any dozens of other 99¢ to $1.99 records hitting the market.
Its to bad  his son  liquidated  all of Als file recordings he produced... 
101 strings... almost as much an institution as Paul Whiteman 78s. Ahhh  got it back on 78 topic  LOL 
dnward

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>Sent: Mar 29, 2009 10:06 AM
>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>Subject: [78-L] Finding Lost WebSites  (was: Mitch Miller Horrifies)
>
>David Lennick wrote:
>> Gosh darn it all to heck, the 101 Strings discography pages have disappeared.
>>
>> http://gravediggervideo.com/somerset.html
>>
>> http://gravediggervideo.com/alshire.html
>>
>> Anyone know if these have resurfaced anywhere?..wish that discography hadn't vanished on us.
>>
>> dl
>>
>>   
>
>I know this is going to sound like an informercial, but, Haven't you 
>ever heard of the WayBackMachine?  You haven't?!  Well, let me tell you 
>of this handy dandy little tool.  It slices!  It dices!  It retrieves 
>old websites!!!!!!!
>
>What would you pay for this handy dandy machine?  $49.95?  No, it's not 
>that much.  How about $39.95?  Still too much?  How about $19.95?  Gosh, 
>you drive a hard bargain.  How about FREE!!?? 
>
>It's free!  And you don't even have to pay a small charge for shipping 
>and handling.
>
>Just go to    http://www.archive.org/index.php    and right there at the 
>top center is the WayBackMachine.  Just put in the original URL (careful 
>not to have two http://) , press the Take Me Back button, and up will 
>pop a chart with clickable dates of when their web crawler encountered 
>and saved the site. 
>
>I just checked, and the discographies are there.
>
>You're welcome.
>
>Mike (don't thank me, thank Leah) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
>> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>   
>>> "101 Strings - rhe Soul of Blues"
>>> Alshire S-5048 (cover) Alshire ST-5048 (record label)
>>> 101-ST-5048 [-A & -B}(runouts)
>>>
>>> Mfg. by Budget Sound, Burbank, CA
>>> "The World's First Stereo Scored Orchestra"
>>> recorded under direction of  D. L. Miller
>>>
>>> A side:
>>> Birth Of The Blues (DeSilva - Brown - Henderson)
>>> St. Louis Blues (Handy)
>>> Mood Indigo (Ellington - Mills - Bigard)
>>> Slow, And With Soul (Lowden)
>>>
>>> B side:
>>> Goodbye (Jenkins)
>>> Symphony For Blues (Kuhn)
>>> Definitely Blue (Kuhn)
>>> Blues Pizzicato (Provenzano)
>>> The "In" Crowd (Page)
>>>
>>> And there were 51 other 101 Strings albums on the same label!
>>> Need all the names? Hmm?
>>> Play it?? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
>>> Mal
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>
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