[78-L] T.A.C. Records

[David Lennick]

Better clarify this..there were TWO "Theme" labels around 1950. One shared an 
address with Tempo in Hollywood and the other was Eric Bernay's label for 
reissuing Keynote masters that hadn't gone to Mercury.

David Lennick wrote:
> TAC 2 was Beatrice Kay on one side and Tony Kraber on t'other..both TAC 1 & 2 
> are listed in Jack Raymond's book as original cast recordings from "Cabaret 
> TAC". Theme was a late 40s label that reissued Keynote originals, on vinyls 
> (but from poor dubs). "No For An Answer" may have been Theme's only LP issue 
> (certainly the only one I've ever seen). There was also the Music Room 
> International label which had "6 Songs for Democracy" and a couple of other 
> issues, one of them (strangely) a British dance band, as I recall. Theme was 
> also a label that issued Joe Venuti records, possibly changing its name to 
> Tempo or possibly being a part of the same stable at the same time.
> 
> Speaking of Keynote, yesterday I was in a used book store just outside of 
> Toronto and noticed a few albums on the counter. One of them was "Talking 
> Union", which I naturally checked..one wrong record (Mene Mene Tekel, from Pins 
> & Needles) and one Almanac disc, "Which Side". "I got two copies of this 
> album", said I. When I checked them last night, I found that one was missing 
> that disc and the other had it but with a crack. So I guess I'll be heading 
> back to that used book store just outside of Toronto.
> 
> Both "Joe Hill" and "Abraham Lincoln" were also recorded by Earl Robinson, on 
> Timely. With art work on the labels. Incidentally, my copy of TAC-1 doesn't 
> have any reference to "Modern". Yellow and blue label (something in the back of 
> my memory recalls a red label, but that could be the THEME reissue). Very light 
> pressing, almost feels like vinyl but I'm not going to try bending it.
> 
> dl
> 
> Steve Shapiro wrote:
>> Abe Lincoln / Joe Hill was reissued several times.  Besides Keynote and T.A.C., it was issued on Theme Records (what was that company?) with the same mx as the T.A.C.  I may also have this on another record with gray label, but don't remember.  The T.A.C. record is not very common, but not so rare either.  Some years back I checked the quotation from Lincoln's first inaugural address in one of Sandburg's books.  It doesn't quite match with what Loring sings in the chorus.  " This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.  [Insert Hayes/Robinson line here.]  Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."  WARNING:  Don't try doing this without obtaining an attorney's counsel.  Just because Lincoln said this in 1861 and Loring sang this in a song 75 years later doesn't make this legal.  Look what happened to Jefferso
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>> Also on T.A.C. (writing from memory) Hazel Scott (not a great record, but were any of these great?) and June Havoc.
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>> T.A.C. records were issued by the "Modern Record Co." "Series A"!  Wot wuz dat about?/steve
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