[78-L] Polly Burgin/Bergen

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Oct 24 19:05:13 PDT 2009


As it happens, the disc is listed in David Diehl's Blue Pages (should I listen 
to it for prurient content? I guess for the mountin' boys side)..it is Polly, 
and it is from 1949. ARLD puts it in that year as well.

dl

Roger Wade wrote:
> Hi Taylor,
> 
> According to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography, Kem 2702 and 2704 were by  
> Wingy Manone, recorded May 8 and October 9, 1949.  That should narrow  
> it down.
> 
> 
> KEM 2704
> Wingy Manone (tp,vcl) Burt Johnson (tb) Matty Matlock (cl) Stan  
> Wrightsman (p) Barney Kessel (g) Harman Stutz (b) Zutty Singleton (d)
>   Los Angeles, October 8, 1949
> 
> KEM 2702
> Wingy Manone (tp,vcl) Burt Johnson (tb) Matty Matlock (cl) Allan  
> Stevenson (p) Red Roundtree (bj) Country Washburne (tu) Nick Fatool (d)
>   Los Angeles, May 9, 1949
> 
> 
> Roger Wade
> Really Old Records
> 
> http://www.reallyoldrecords.com
> 
> http://stores.ebay.com/Really-Old-Records?RefID=store
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/shops/reallyoldrecords
> 
> http://astore.amazon.com/discographiesplus-20
> 
> http://www.myspace.com/reallyoldrecords
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone give me a recording date for the following.  I'm  
>> assuming it was
>> recorded in Los Angeles.  Also curious about any other of Polly's  
>> records on
>> 78.  When did she start using Bergen professionally (her birth name  
>> was
>> Burgin)?
>>
>>
>> Kem 2703.  Polly Burgin:   Mount'n Boys Have Fun With Mount'n Girls  
>> b/w
>> Honky Tonkin'.
>>
>> Accomp little jazzy band includes Joe Venuti and Matty Matlock and  
>> three
>> other guys I'd never heard of.
>>
>>
>> Thanks from
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>



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