[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>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.
>
The Gennett name on record labels was revived c.1942...in order to use their 
quota of
shellac (which imports were stopped via Japanese advances in eastern 
Asia!?)!

Steven C. Barr