[78-L] Synthetic Plastics LIVES!

[David Lennick]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I was rather surprised in 1985 when I found a brand-new copy of the
> 1978 double LP BIG BAND JAZZ by Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
> (Umbrella UMB-DD4), and on the back of the jacket it stated it was
> distributed by Peter Pan Industries!  It may have been a copy still at
> the record store after all those years, as the records were those
> quality thick German pressings....

Hard to believe Umbrella was desperate enough to use Peter Pan as a 
distributor! Those were some great records, most of them direct to disc.
McConnell just gave the last Boss Brass performance this past month after a 40 
year run..not bad considering that it was a group assembled for a transcription 
by the Canadian Talent Library.

dl

> 
> On 7/19/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>> Believe it or not, Synthetic Plastics is still in business!!  Perhaps
>> they have realized, like Steve Barr recently mentioned, that this name
>> is rather redundant since they have changed their name to Inspired
>> Studios.  They are now making CDs and I-Tunes downloads in a Passionate
>> Music series (Passionate Piano, Romantic Guitars, and Sensuous Sax --
>> with the requisite dirty pictures on the covers) Christmas, Irish,
>> Halloween, Salute to America series, along with, of course Peter Pan and
>> Tinkerbell kids records.  The company is being run by Daniel K. Kasen,
>> son of one of the founders, brothers Donald and Lewis.  He has the
>> archive and is digitizing all those great recordings that appeared on
>> Peter Pan, Spin-O-Rama records, Pirouette Records, Ambassador Records,
>> Clan Records, Diplomat Records, Guest Star Records, Promenade Records,
>> Power Records, Humpty Dumpty, Tinkerbell, Rocking Horse, and Mother
>> Goose Records.  They have a website with a company history and a listing
>> of what is now available from them.
>>
>> http://www.peterpanmusic.net/index.htm
>>
>> You might want to check out some of these immortal songs on one of their
>> kids albums:
>> Sam, Sam the Lavatory Man, Willie's Underwear, National Embalming
>> School, My dead Dog Rover, God Bless My Underwear, My Stomach has had
>> it, and He Jumped from 40,000 feet.
>>
>> And there is a web site with label lists of most of the cheapy labels.
>>
>> http://forbiddeneye.com/labels/archives.html
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com