[78-L] Judson, was Re: Sampson, also Nat Brusiloff

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Sat May 2 09:38:34 PDT 2009


Mine are green label...besides the Here Comes Emily Brown side,  I also 
played my other two:  That's Why I'm Jealous of You,  and Wedding of the 
Birds(!).  Great little no-brass group,  with excellent piano and plenty of 
Nat's enjoyable violin.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Judson, was Re: Sampson, also Nat Brusiloff


> Forgot to mention that there's some nice guitar on this as well. I'd 
> better
> check this with Ray Mitchell, the Lang discographer.
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> This Judson disc bears investigation. No hot fiddle, but a hot little 
>> combo
>> consisting of trumpet (muted), clarinet and piano, and the most 
>> horrendous
>> female duo imaginable, whose names sound like Ruth Lenn (or Lennon) and
>> Catherine Kent, in a medley of real warm numbers (My Future Just Passed, 
>> I Love
>> You So Much etc). Philco Program 9 Part 3, mx JS 568.
>>
>> DL
>>
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>> Some Judsons that aren't Eugene Ormandy's Salon Orchestra? Amazing. 
>>> Actually I have one blue label Judson I should check, since it's 
>>> non-classical..part of a program, no artist on the label. Judson was a 
>>> syndicated label named for artist manager and CBS co-founder Arthur 
>>> Judson. Columbia (which co-owned the Columbia Broadcasting System but 
>>> pulled out after about 3 months) did the pressings. Philco was an early 
>>> sponsor of Judson transcribed programs.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Fri, 5/1/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>>> Subject: [78-L] Sampson, also Nat Brusiloff
>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Received: Friday, May 1, 2009, 8:23 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> So glad the Yves mentioned the Henderson "House of David Blues" which is
>>> just packed solid with great solo work,  including a wonderful violin 
>>> solo
>>> by Sampson...it's one of my very favorite records of all of Henderson's
>>> work.
>>>
>>> There is a guy with the George Hall band on Bluebird and some of the 
>>> Dolly
>>> Dawn Patrol sides who is not bad at all,  either...don't recall his name 
>>> but
>>> he's mentioned in the notes for the Bluebird LP.
>>>
>>> Violinist Nat Brusiloff could get going pretty well on occasion, 
>>> although
>>> the records I have him on are all 12" non-commercial radio disks.  They 
>>> are
>>> one-sided, issued on the "Judson" label by the "Judson Radio Program 
>>> Corp."
>>> The run inside-out and are mostly a little longer than three minutes. 
>>> Best
>>> of the three I have is Here Comes Emily Brown so I assume they all date 
>>> from
>>> 1930...anyone have any more info about these Judsons?    They look like 
>>> they
>>> might have been pressed by Columbia...the orch. credit is Nat Brusiloff 
>>> and
>>> his Lido Venice Orch.
>>>
>>> He's also in one of those Rambling on Radio Row shorts,  with Jack 
>>> Miller on
>>> piano,  and with Kate Smith.
>>>
>>> Thanks from
>>>
>>> Taylor
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