[78-L] Parade Records

[David Lewis]

Glenn,

Thank you; that answers my question. You may know this already but Palda was David L. Miller's first label. He reorganized it into Essex around 1950 which made some of Bill Haley's first records, and then closed Essex in 1957 in order to start Somerset/Trans-World, which made the 101 Strings albums. That was exclusively an LP concern; didn't even make 45s to my knowledge.

Nice site! Is this a reanimated version of the one that was up earlier in the 2000s or a wholly new undertaking?


Uncle Dave Lewis
uncledavelewis at hotmail.com


Just noticed another one of these string band labels.  It was right in front of me, no wonder I missed it - Pals.  It's from Philly as well.  It's on the same page right under the Palda label.

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net> wrote:


From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Parade Records
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:07 AM


There are two Parade Record Co.'s that I know of.  Both labels I have are here:
 
http://www.majesticrecord.com/labelsp.htm
 
I need to update the page but here's what I've learned.  The early Parade I have, these two sides were also licensed to Apollo and came out on Apollo 1112.  Apollo had distribution rights to the entire country except Philadelphia.  So it would seem likely this Parade was from Philadelphia.  The second Parade is listed as having a NY address, not NJ.  Is there a third one?  In the 1950 Billboard articles I've seen this Parade, started by Wally Wolsky, was being listed as "the new Parade Record Company."  So I would guess that the original one, from Philadelphia, was dead by then.  
 
There were a few other records I have from this era with string bands.  Mummers, Media, Palda (at the same link as above but I have yet to write anything about it on the page) and Krantz are a few labels that come to mind.
 
Glenn

--- On Mon, 1/18/10, David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:





 		 	   		  
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