[78-L] Looking for record sleeve info:

[estott at localnet.com]

  I found an old thread via Google giving the text from both sides- 
quite lengthy. Unfortunately Griselle failed to make any impression as 
a concert composer, he and Bloom were better known for popular songs. I 
WOULD like to hear Griselle's "Cubist: Fox-Trot" which he recorded for 
Edison as a piano duet with Victor Young. One of his other titles 
"Czerney pilots a flying saucer" sounds interesting

  Eric Stott

   Quoting David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>:

> I have the disc with a special white label, signed by both Griselle 
> and Bloom,
> but I don't recall seeing the sleeve.
>
> dl
>
> estott at localnet.com wrote:
>> While there is all this talk of record sleeves I have a request. In
>> 1928 Victor recorded two winners of an American Composition contest
>> (details copied below) I am given to undestand that the disc was issued
>> with a special sleeve with explanatory text. Does anyone out there have
>> a copy? It's for Victor 3600 "Two American Sketches" and "Song of the
>> Bayou"
>>
>> Eric Stott
>>
>>
>> "In 1928 In 1928 Nat Shilkret established a competition for the best
>> modern American composition. The grand prize of $10,000 was awarded to
>> a composer of enormous talent and no reputation, Thomas Griselle
>> (1891-1955). Griselle was Ohio-born and had studied at the Cincinnati
>> College of Music. After World War I he became a recording director at
>> the Gennett Studio in New York City, and later recorded piano duets for
>> Edison. Upon winning the prize, Griselle went to Europe and studied
>> with both Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schönberg. The titles of his
>> works, such as "Cubist Foxtrot" and "Czerny Pilots a Flying Saucer" are
>> intriguing, but Griselle?s output has yet to be investigated by
>> scholars. The "Nocturne" movement of Griselle?s Two American Sketches
>> became a sort of underground standard in the Big Band era, and was
>> recorded by Artie Shaw and John Kirby among others.
>>
>> The second prize of $5,000 was given to a much better known composer,
>> Rube Bloom (1902-1976). Completely self-taught in music, Bloom was
>> already established by 1928 through his popular novelty ragtime pieces
>> such as "Soliloquy" and "Spring Fever". He would later distinguish
>> himself in composing popular songs that have since become standards,
>> such as "Give Me the Simple Life" and "Fools Rush In" (written with
>> Johnny Mercer). Song of the Bayou is one of only a few pieces that
>> Bloom wrote with the concert hall in mind, the rest of his output being
>> in a purely popular vein."
>>
>>
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