[78-L] Synthetic Plastics LIVES!

[Royal Pemberton]

I wonder how many of the original band are still alive?  I remember
Moe Koffman died some years ago, but I don't know about any of the
others.  Terrific band though!!

When I saw that Umbrella album, the shop also had a version of it on
Pausa, actually repackaged with different cover graphics, as two
single-disc albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2, each of them duplicating
the content of one of the two Umbrella discs, mastered from the
analogue playback/backup tapes recorded simultaneously with the
lacquer cuts.

On 7/20/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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
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