[78-L] Back..with new questions

[Taylor Bowie]

Ate,

The earliest information I have about Bert Lown was the period in 1928 (and 
possible into 1929) when he and Rudy Vallee were co-owners of a band booking 
agency in New York.   There are papers about this in the Rudy Vallee Archive 
at the Thousand Oaks Public Library in California.  I was the agent for the 
library when the archive was purchased from the Vallee estate about twenty 
years ago,  and I spend a lot of time examining the letters,  documents, 
etc. at that time.  I even recall being given some duplicate business cards 
out of the archive which were for the "Lown-Vallee Agency" or some similar 
name.

I have never found any information that Bert Lown made any recordings of any 
kind prior to the 1928 sides for Harmony.

Taylor



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From: "Ate van Delden" <ate.vandelden at worldonline.nl>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Back..with new questions


> Sorry, the following should have gone off-list, but now that it is
> "in-list": anybody has information?
>
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> From: "Ate van Delden" <ate.vandelden at worldonline.nl>
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>> Dear Mark,
>>
>> we had some correspondence in the past when I sent you the 2 Calabrese
>> Gennett titles.
>> At the time I didn't realize that Lou was with Bert Lown and that is 
>> where
>> my research project meets yours.
>> I am rsearching Adrian Rollini who joined Lown in 1930. Rollini cut many
>> records with Bert Lown, for Victor and several other labels.
>> Do you know if Lou was on any of these? Or had he left Lown before?
>> Thanks for your information.
>> Ate van Delden
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 11:46 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Back..with new questions
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Been out for a spell.
>>> I am still working on the Lou Breese bio and have come upon some
>>> interesting finds. For one thing, I have been trying to figure out why
>>> Lou suddenly left New York in 29 and wound up in Minneapolis. I think I
>>> found the connection: Eugene Ormandy. I asked Lou's daughter about
>>> Eugene and she said that he and Lou were lifelong friends and Lou could
>>> not say enough nice things about him. I think when Ormandy went to
>>> Minneapolis to take of the Symphony there, be found a job for Lu, too,
>>> at the Minneapolis Theater.
>>> I have a picture of the marquee there which shows Lou on it and I have a
>>> pic of a piece of sheet music, perhaps his first, credited to Lu Breese
>>> And His Minnesoa Serenaders.
>>> On an earlier topic, I was trying to find Lou's connection with Bert
>>> Lown, I found some newspapers online from Massachusetts Institute of
>>> Technology  which prove that Lou worked for Bert in at least 1922. Does
>>> any one have info on this?
>>> Did Lown make any recordings about this time?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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