[78-L] Frank Ross - Liberty Music Shop L-154

[Jack Raymond]

The film producer Frank Ross made no films in the early Thirties and
might have been the Frank Ross who sings on that 1933 LMS record. The
"Personal Recording" label style that you describe is what LMS used at
the time.  My copy of L-154 has the same label as yours, and it's also
the one L-153.  LMS played around with different styles.  L-156, for
example,  is emblazoned "Eduardo Bianco et son fameaux (SIC) orchestre
Argentin" in big letters, with a small picture of Bianco; down at the
bottom of the label, in small letters, it says "Distributed Exclusively
by Liberty Music Shop."  Perhaps the oddest LMS label is one issued in
1936.  The plain white label reads "FAREWELL SPEECH OF KING EDWARD
VIII," with "Liberty Music Shops" in small type at the bottom and no
label number whatsoever.  Scratched in the runoff area are the matrix
numbers S-1 and S-2.

-- Jack Raymond


> Recorded June 1933, and only the 5th LMS disc issued. I've seen one 
> very early LMS (don't own it) which had a different label style, so 
> maybe the ones recorded by ARC at that time had this 
> designation..Jack Raymond will know.
> 
> dl
> 
> zimrec at juno.com wrote:
> 
>>> I turned up a couple copies of a Liberty Music Shop Personal 
>>> Recording.  Record number is L-154, so it would seem to be in the
>>>  standard issued number series, but the label style is different.
>>>  Credit is as Dorothy Norman and Jack Munroe playing, Frank Ross
>>>  singing.  Song titles are You;ve Got To Admit  (mx BP13515B) and
>>>  Saving for a Rainy Day (BP13444B).  Can anyone tell me something
>>>  about the accompanists and is Ross the one time husband of 
>>> actress Jean Arthur?
>>> 
>>> Art