[78-L] Multi-track 78's...

[David Lennick]

Lookee here..
http://www.rcb.uklinux.net/light/index.htm
Includes a Waldorf Music Hall 3-per-side discography but lists only the sides 
Enoch Light is on. All real names there, I'm pretty sure. Jeez, and I missed 
Artie Malvin doing Ling Ting Tong.

David Lennick wrote:
> Preston Sandiford is real. Or was.
> http://www.nejazz.org/prestonSandiford1983.php
> 
> A number of the artists on the Solitaire labels were the real article, 
> including Professor Sandy and Peggy King, but there were lots of others I was 
> never sure about. Art Zimmerman knows some of the artists and occasionally we 
> hear from him here..Robert Angus also seemed to know about Solitaire, but he 
> seems to have left us. Solitaire also inherited (or licensed non-exclusively) 
> the product of many small labels, so Lena Horne, Frankie Laine and Pee Wee Hunt 
> turn up under their own names on LP, and probably recycled on multi-track 78s 
> as well, but Solitaire was also a pirate label..its classical repertoire was 
> swiped from anywhere and everywhere.
> 
> Once we get into the "6 Top Hits" on the Solitaire group labels, it's anything 
> goes. Tops seems to have identified its performers, especially since Scatman 
> Crothers was among them, and Mimi Martel was real as well.
> 
> Double Feature was a descendant of VitaCoustic/Universal and Caravan, and those 
> turned up in Canada as part of the Solitaire group as well..I have a 
> Harmonicats on a Canadian Cameo issue.
> 
> Enoch Light produced lots of budget recordings and used Artie Malvin on quite a 
> few vocals..anything on Waldorf or related multi-track labels likely uses the 
> performers' real names, since I have Paul Whiteman and Wally Cox on some of 
> these (including at least one microgroove 78 with *8* tracks per side).
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> dl
> 
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> Okeh...a new project upon which I am "embarking!"
>>
>> One of the very few unexplored areas among 78rpm phonorecords
>> is (are?) the innumerable four/six/usw.-track records issued from
>> c.1950 or so through c.1956 (or later)! I have accumulated MANY
>> examples of these...and am using MS Access to try to create lists
>> of the (supposed) artist identities used on these relative to the issued
>> titles!
>>
>> So far, it appears that the songs were made available individually...
>> IOW, an individual phonorecord will include tunes which appear
>> on other examples...with identical or similar artist credits.
>>
>> One wonders how many desparate artists were involved in cutting
>> these tracks...usually more-or-less anonymously?!
>>
>> When I am in a position to do so, I will create a web site including
>> such data as I have been able to accumulate; as well, I will start
>> asking for details of such similar records as other listeners happen
>> to own...and I welcome donations of these phonorecords as well!
>>
>> Quite a number of players/singers cut these records...usually under
>> "assumed names"...?! This being over fifty years past, these folks
>> had "recording careers" they could NEVER claim!
>>
>> Was there really a "Preston Sandiford?!" We know there WAS
>> an "Enoch Light" who may have been the CMFIC of "Waldorf"
>> trcords...but there were MANY other quasi-anonymous artists
>> involved in cutting these discs...?!
>>
>> ...stevenc
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