[78-L] Rex Battle, or not?

[Taylor Bowie]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the info...I'd never heard of this guy until now and there's no 
mention of him in my book about Canadian dance bands.

The web page you linked says that he played at the Mount Royal from 1922 
through 1929,  so why wouldn't this be a legit record of that band?  The 
article goes on to say that in '34 he founded one of the earliest "jazz" big 
bands,  but I didn't read that to mean he was  starting his "first band."

While we're on the subject of Canadian dance orchestras,  I'm always 
interested in any information about Mart Kenney...his 1938 Bluebird of 
There's Honey on the Moon is one of my core faves.


Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Davies" <SDavies at mtroyal.ca>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 12:39 PM
Subject: [78-L] Rex Battle, or not?


> Folks,
>        I have a disc which is attributed to Rex Battle & his dance
> orchestra:
>
> Apex 8333-A (Mx 10000=A ?): The midnight waltz
> Apex 8333-B (Mx 21051=A ?): I've found my sweetheart Sally (a.k.a. I found
> my sweetheart Sally)
>
>        Is this the disc from which Battle, a classical musician,
> distanced himself in later years?
>
> http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000220
> <<<
> His few 78s for Apex as a pianist (in Chopin and Liszt) and accompanist
> (to Ernest-Gill Plamondon and Leon Kofman) are listed in _Roll Back The
> Years_, as is an Apex 78 whose attribution to 'Rex Battle and His Mount
> Royal Hotel Orchestra' has been disputed by Battle.
>>>>
>        If Battle really didn't wax this disc, whose tracks are on it? The
> matrices are wildly far apart, and the songs were both very popular about
> ten years before Battle started his band in 1934.
>        Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Labels are viewable at:
> http://bigband-smallband.blogspot.com#8433007726184425144
>
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
>
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