[78-L] random acts of kindness was Capitol's Prep Subsidiary

[David Lennick]

Wonder if the nice lady was Beth Dasheff? She went out of her way to find me 
the long out-of-print Second City album on Smash as well as a couple of other 
difficult items. She was also gorgeous.

dl

Thomas Stern wrote:
> When I returned from a couple of years in England, I was searching for
> a couple of the HANK WILLIAMS 2-LP sets I had missed and which had
> disappeared
> from the stores.  After phoning every large retailer I knew of from
> California to
> New York, I phoned Mercury in NY to see if they know who might have stock or
> remainders.
>   After getting past the operator, spoke with a very helpful woman who said
> there were
> a few copies knocking about the office, and she mailed them to me, gratis!!!
>   A lovely experience for a grateful collector.
>   Thomas.
> 
> 
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> 
> I once walked into the 20th Century Fox offices in the Brill Building (mebbe
> early 70's) and asked if they had anything by Glenn Miller. (That's Chutzpah
> but I was younger) A wonderful woman, I believe the office manager, reached
> into one of her drawers and gave me the soundtrack LP's for "Orchestra
> Wives" and "Sun Valley Serenade" I asked what I owed her and she
> said.."Nothing..we don't get many requests for this and I hope you will
> enjoy them" I did and do.
> 
> Al Simmons
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Capitol's Prep Subsidiary
> 
> 
>> Once upon a time, probably in the mid 80s, I bullshat my way into the
>> Rhino
>> offices as a famous Canadian deejay (okay, so I was) and got to take
>> anything I
>> wanted as promos. I know the Mamie Van Doren EP was one of them..along
>> with the
>> various compilations, records shaped like fish and Jewish Stars and
>> whatnot.
>> Rhino, we miss thee.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Jack Raymond wrote:
>>> Van Doren's EP of four Untamed Youth songs were reissued on Rhino
>>> RNLP-70819.
>>>
>>> -- Jack  Raymond
>>>
>>> Mike Murray wrote:
>>>> No - the one(s) on Rhino were a group named "Untamed Youth"
>>>> Mamie appears on the EP cover to the FILM titled "Untamed Youth" on Prep
>>>> Here's a link to photo of it:
>>>> http://lpcoverlover.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/scan0017.jpg
>>>>
>>>> At 06:38 PM 10/7/2009 -0400,dl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Was that the one that was reissued by Rhino?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike Murray wrote:
>>>>>>>> Don't know about any 78s there, but I do know that the top Prep
>>>>>>>> $$collectible is Mamie Van Doren's 1957 EP record titled "Untamed
>>>>>>>> Youth" featuring songs from soundtrack of same name. Collectible
>>>>>>>> mainly for her cover (or lack thereof) .
>>>>>>>> PREP M 1-1 (UNTAMED YOUTH
>>>>>>>> Rollin' Stone / Salamander / Oo Ba La Baby / Go Go Calypso
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>