[78-L] Total Recall

Jeff Sultanof jeffsultanof at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 19:16:24 PST 2010


According to Russ Connor in at least one of the BG discographies he wrote,
the Victor sides were pulled. But as I remember, they'd been out for a time
before Victor did this. So who knows how many copies were actually sold?
This is certainly not a case like "Popcorn Man," which did not even hit
stores before it was pulled. Last I heard, six copies are known to exist.
And Victor destroyed the master to boot.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>wrote:

> I've always wondered about that story...Decca threatening to sue Victor if
> they didn't pull the Goodman/Fitzgerald sides.   And Goodman did remake
> Goodnight My Love with Frances Hunt singing.
>
> But the records don't seem to be very rare...were they in fact recalled at
> any time?
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:22 PM
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>
> I'd be interested in knowing more about the Boots and his Buddies
> recordings.I have a circa
> 1938 Bluebird of his playing "The Somebody".The title was a retitling of
> "Somebody Loves
> Me".I found that one plus a hundred or more at a one time business in Coos
> Bay,Oregon
> called Sunset Automatic Music Company.They originally sold and serviced
> Juke
> Boxes
> and pinball machines.The owner of the company found at least a few thousand
> quite by ac-
> cident in 1994.Two circa 1936 Victors I found were of the Benny Goodman
> Orchestra with
> Ella Fitzgerald(who was not listed-the records just said "with vocal
> refrain")of "Take Another
> Guess","Goodnight my Love","'Taint No Use(vocal by Benny Goodman)" and the
> last title
> escapes me.I was of the impression that when Decca heard of the records
> Fitzgerald cut
> with Goodman,Decca threatened to sue and Victor recalled all of the
> recordings.
>
> --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Fwd: recent finds
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> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:41 PM
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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:56 PM
> Subject: recent finds
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>
>
> One of the best reasons I hunt for 78s is to be surprised at what is found.
>
> I'm still on my Texas label 78 kick and I found these three in the last
> couple of weeks.
>
> Euday Bowman on Bowman 1/2 playing his composition, "Twelfh Street Rag."
> (Bowman/Fort Worth)
>
> Hank Thompson singing ads for Shell Oil to promote pesticides to combat
> boll
> weevils. (Shell/Houston)
>
> Sol Hoopi and Ira Stanphill doing some gospel numbers on Hymntime.
> (Hymntime/Fort Worth)
>
> Earlier surprises have been Boots and His Buddies on Talent (Dallas), Crown
> Prince Waterford on Torch (Dallas),
> Little Doug (Sahm) on Sarg (Luling), Phineas Newborn, Jr. on Peacock Jazz
> (Houston), and Rufus Thomas on Star Talent (Dallas).
>
> Always looking for Texas label 78s if anyone has any they don't want.
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