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

[Royal Pemberton]

OOPS--a correction to the composer credit on 'Rotation blues'.  That
should read -Stewart Powell- with no comma.

On 5/25/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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