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

[Royal Pemberton]

Here's one for Steve:  the skinny on Royale 4M8, a 78 EP from circa
1952 I have, with two songs per side, all credited to 'Hugh Ashley and
His Orchestra'.

Side 1, mx 4M-8A:

1:  'Rotation blues'  -Stewart, Powell-
2:  'Crying heart blues'  -J. Brown-

Side 2, mx 4M-8B:

1:  'If teardrops were pennies'  -Carl Butler-
2:  'Mister Moon'  -Smith, Inman, Lynn-

According to Hugh Ashley, here's the personnel:

RED GALE  mandolin, vocals
PAT GREESON  bass, vocals
ART WHITE  violin, vocals
UPTON HORN  vocals
HUGH ASHLEY  standard and steel guitars, vocals

Recorded at a radio station in Little Rock (can't recall the call
letters he told me).

On 5/25/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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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