[78-L] Total Recall

[Jeff Sultanof]

Connor does mention in his last Goodman discogr. that the Hunt version seems
to be harder to find than Ella's.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>wrote:

> 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>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 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
> >> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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