[78-L] Parade Records

[Dan Van Landingham]

Some of those albums featured a few friends of mine from the Hollywood scene:Arthur "Sk-
eets" Herfurt(lead alto with Alvino Rey,Lawrence Welk,Tommy Dorsey amongst others),Jo-
hn Best(who worked with Artie Shaw,Miller,Benny Goodman and Miller impersonator Ralph
Flanagan) and Al Hendrickson(guitar with Artie Shaw,Benny Goodman,Jerry Gray,Bob Cro-
sby and Rudy Vallee).He was a close friend as was Skeets Herfurt.Skeets also played ten-
or sax from time to time;he broke into the studio music scene by way of the Dorsey Broth-
ers Orchestra in 1934 as a tenor saxist.He also played lead alto for Tommy Dorsey in 1937
until late 1938.Drummer Jack Sperling was an acquaintance of mine.He had worked for tru-
mpeter Bunny Berigan from late 1941 through March-April 1942 when Berigan was recordi-
ng for Eli Oberstein's Elite label.Those sides appeared on several economy labels such as
Design which was owned by Pickwick International.

--- 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, 11:16 AM



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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