[78-L] Baldwin label for sale

[Glen Richards]

Google is everyone's friend:

<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9IAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iYsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1129%2C2742541>

 xFrom the "Palm Beach (Florida) Daily News" January 25, 1938:

"...Val Ernie's band is still making dancing feet tingle on The Patio's 
open air dance floor until all hours. Al Nathan, the chap who plays a 
rat-a-tat on everything in sight when Va! Ernie's band gets hot, 
furnishes plenty of what it takes with the drums, vibraphones and chime: 
to round out one of the finest dance orchestras in the world. Al has 
been with Val Ernie for eight years and is one of the most colorful of 
the band's musicians. His work with Val's orchestra has been 
outstanding. Timing, rhythm and technique! Al has them all according to 
Val Ernie, The Patio's brilliant maestro."


It's pretty obviously a late 30's disk, and this seems to confirm that. 
It's not a Gennett; I wonder it was a vanity pressing?

Glen


Glen Richards (glenster at 2multiples.com)
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Taylor Bowie wrote:

> Mal,  What approx. date would you give to the Baldwin on eBay?  I can't find 
> any reference to Val Ernie as a bandleader except that he was a client of 
> MCA around  1940.
> 
> Taylor