[78-L] Synthetic Plastics LIVES!

[David Lennick]

Jerry Toth is also deceased, but in looking through Jack Litchfield's Canbadian 
Jazz Discography I see many names that are still with us. The Boss Brass was 
basically a studio group but their first album did so well that they ended up 
forming a semi-permanent group that played two-week gigs in Toronto every year. 
The individual members were too busy as free-lancers to do any kind of touring.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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