[78-L] Red Rose / Near You - was B sides

[GENE JOSLIN]

The Bullet record of Red/Rose/Near You was issued originally as a souvenir for the Francis Craig band's many loyal patrons.

Strangely "Near You: the "other side" took off like the proverbial rocket.

I was playing in a college band at Fr. Riley at the height of the furor. and we were besieged with requests for Near You. which we all learned to hate.
The Francis Craig orchestra had an earlier release, years before on a Columbia D

      - From Former trombone with Vaughn Bolton


----- Original Message ----
From: Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tue, October 6, 2009 9:04:53 PM
Subject: [78-L] Red Rose / Near You - was B sides

Red Rose (Craig) was on Bullet 1001 A 
and
Near You (Craig-Goell) was on 1001 B
so that establishes the A/B relationship, but I have collected big band theme songs for decades and this is the first time I've ever heard of Red Rose being Craig's theme song.

Not that I doubt your word on the subject, I can easily see how this one would slip under the radar of George T Simon's list and others I've seen.  If I can get one more vote for Red Rose being Craig's theme song, I'll wash my copy, play it and think about using it on my show some day.

I have seen Near You listed as his theme, but that came from the same source that listed Got a Date With an Angel as Kemp's theme, so I doubted Near You immediately.  This, however, would explain the confusion.

Rodger



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--- On Tue, 10/6/09, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] B sides
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 6:38 PM

Wasn't Francis Craig's hit recording of "Near You," on the Bullet label, the
B side of the recording of his theme song "Red Rose?"

Bud


-------Original Message-------

From: DAVID BURNHAM
Date: 10/6/2009 5:10:19 PM
To: 78-L at 78online.com
Subject: [78-L] B sides

There have been some B sides which became more popular than the A sides.

Right now I'm in Ottawa so I can't check my facts but I believe Freddy
Martin's "A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" was the B side for "A Bluebird on my
Windowsill".  And a personal favourite, I loved "Bluebird Boogie-Woogie"
which was a B side for something, (Heart of My Heart or Heart and Soul or
something like that).

db
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