[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[Taylor Bowie]

I have several of Jan Savitt on Bluebird with Carlotta Dale as well as Bon 
Bon.They came
from a business here in Coos Bay,Oregon that sold and serviced juke boxes 
and pinball
machines.These records were never played.Carlotta Dale was injured in a car 
wreck.Her
face was disfigured.In the early forties,she worked with bandleader Will 
Bradley according
to George T. Simon in his 1966 book "The Big Bands".I had one record on Joe 
Davis.From
from what I remember,the records were released by way of Gennett Records 
which struck
me as odd in that the company folded in the early thirties.I don't know much 
about Bon Bon
after his stint with Jan Savitt.What I do know is that he returned to the 
Three Keys.

Thanks,  Dale.  The info in the Simon book  (1967) is the only place where 
I've read anything about her.  She deserves to be better remembered and 
better documented.  As I'd mentioned before,  I've found nothing of her on 
record after the Bradley Columbias...and nothing in print,  either.

Taylor