[78-L] Gennett Question

[Michael Biel]

In the Gennett ledgers there are notes at the start and end of several
recording trips to Chicago.  If there were a permanent set-up there
would be continual recording activity at all times of the year.  That
may have happened in the late 20s, but before then their Chicago
recordings come in groups of several weeks.

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com 


From: David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>


<udmacon1 at hotmail.com>> Did Starr-Gennett operate a permanent recording
studio in Chicago or was > it "portable?">Would Gennett have needed...or
even wanted...a facility in Chicago, when they hadone in Richmond,
Indiana...about 200 miles to the south-east? In fact, many of theChicago
performers cut records in Richmond! They also could have made
arrangementswith either NYRL (who DID record in Chicago) or the
Rodeheaver operation (ditto)...?! ...stevenc 

 

Just about all of the small record companies in Chicago in the 1920s
were likely concentrated in the block then known as "printers row" in
Chicago. Marsh Labs and Rodeheaver were literally next door to one
another, and yet I can find only one record in which they may have
cooperated.

 

I would suspect that Gennett would have had a regular facility in
Chicago, though if Rick Kennedy says it was "portable" well okay.
Rodeheaver would have been out of the question by these dates cited
(1927-1931) as he was no longer operating Rainbow after 1926 and hadn't
used his Chicago facility since October 1924. 

Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com