[78-L] Parade Records

[David Lennick]

I remember that presentation. Great stuff. And of course there's no connection 
to the infamous Parade LP label (probably some cruddy 45s as well) that appear 
to be a cross between Peter Pan (ugly reddish plastic) and Oberstein (jacket 
layout and label design on some). I recently picked up a ten-inch Parade lp of 
Musical Gems by Mishel Piastro And His Famous Strings (how famous? was one of 
them off Gypsy Rose Lee?). In High fidelity yet. One of the titles is printed 
correctly on the front (Moment Musicale) but listed in the catalog on the back 
as Minuet Musicola. Ya just can't get good help any more.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Fred Williams did a great presentation at ARSC that even included a LIVE
> APPEARANCE of a Mummer's band!!  It was a WOW!  I have it on videotape. 
> I seem to recall that he cited the Palda recordings as being the first
> of a Mummer's band and last fall I got about ten of them at a South
> Jersey record shoppe, including an album.  I recently lost my phone that
> had Fred's nursing home room number in it -- but I had supplied it to
> someone on this list in an off-list email last year.  Anybody have it? 
> I hate to bother Barbara about it again.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com    
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
> 
> 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:
> 
> 
> From: David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Parade Records
> To: "78-l" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:08 AM
> 
> 
> 
> During the recording ban of 1947-48 there was something of a fad for
> Mummers Parade bands on record. The various Mummers bands were not
> members of the AFM, and the money they made was paid into a central fund
> to benefit the Mummers themselves, so in a sense they exempt from the
> ban. A friend of mine found a copy of Apollo 1111 credited to the
> "Phillie All Star String Band." The label notes that the sides were
> licensed from Parade Records, and in the end groove the Parade matrices
> are crossed out and provisional Apollo ones added. In addition to that I
> found an old article on the web about the Philly Mummers "string band"
> phenomenon and which noted that the little Parade Records concern had
> licensed some masters to a "major label" -- meaning Apollo.
> 
> My question is -- is this "Parade Records" the same that manufactured
> Hit Parader material in the 50s? I would assume the Parade that recorded
> the Phillie All Star String Band would have been based out of
> Philadelphia, but the later Parade shows an address in New Jersey.
> 
> This would be a great question to put to Fred Williams, but I understand
> he is not available at the moment. 
> 
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
> 
>