[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[Taylor Bowie]

I should have prefaced my last reply by noting that

Dale wrote to the list:

> 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
>
>
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