[78-L] Jan Savitt and vocalists

[David Lennick]

Gennett didn't actually fold in the early 30s..it continued as a Sound Effects 
label right through the decade. I find a couple of references stating that Joe 
Davis purchased Gennett's allocation of shellac in the early 40s so he may have 
revived the name as a condition of gaining the supply..the SFX label may have 
morphed into Speedy Q by this time anyway.

I've seen Gennett Sound Effects on vinyl pressings, so I wonder how long that 
name continued to be used..I've also seen Speedy Q pressed on the flakiest 
shellac imaginable.

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- 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 
>