[78-L] Parade Records

[Ron L'Herault]

Seeing Mike Biel's name reminds me that I wanted to mention Leah's
documentary about record collectors.  I finally got to watch it and enjoyed
it thoroughly.  As a machine collector I noticed some of the machines in the
background such as the faded-finish Amberola belonging to Steve Ramm (wish I
had one) and the Pathe belonging to Tim Brooks.  I could probably fix that
arm for him and the reproducer looks like it could use a rebuild.  Are those
rubber gaskets hardened, Tim?

Ron L

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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

                          
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