[78-L] Baldwin label for sale

[Malcolm Rockwell]

What's so odd about this is the "Baldwin" on the label is a Gennett 
typeface, but the credits and song title fonts are not. The border only 
smacks of Gennett and the issue number is no Gennett I've ever seen. Odd.
Mal

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Glen Richards wrote:
> Google is everyone's friend:
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> <http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9IAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iYsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1129%2C2742541>
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>  From 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
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> Taylor Bowie wrote:
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>   
>> 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
>>     
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