[78-L] Total Recall

[Taylor Bowie]

Like Sean,  I've found that the Ella version of Goodnight My Love is way 
more common than the Frances Hunt one...it's also better,  by a long shot. 
I think it's one of the handful of all-time great Ella Fitzgerald records.

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Total Recall


> 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 -----
>> From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 4:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fwd: recent finds
>>
>>
>> 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
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 9:41 PM
>>
>>
>> ---------- 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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