[78-L] Total Recall

[Jeff Sultanof]

Supposedly Decca did not know about them beforehand. AFAIK, the records
themselves had "with vocal refrain" on the labels (I have a copy of the last
Connor discog. of Goodman, but it is in storage. It might have more
information on these recordings).

Jeff Sultanof

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>wrote:

> Regarding the scarcity of the three Ella Fitzgerald recordings with
> Goodman on Victor, one question that hasn’t been addressed is where
> Russ Connor might have gotten his information about the recordings
> being withdrawn. If Decca had known about them before they were issued
> in January or early February 1937, it could have put the same kind of
> pressure on Victor to have Victor pull the records. Since Victor issued
> the recordings, obviously Decca didn’t. John Hammond might have been
> the source because he personally knew Decca management, and Hammond, of
> course, was affiliated with Goodman. Billie Holiday’s recording of “Any
> Old Time” made with Artie Shaw (BB B-7759) in July 1938 was re-recorded
> by Helen Forest March 1939 but not issued until the early 1940s in the
> 20 dash series (Vi 20-1575), backed by a reissue of “My Heart Stood
> Still” from BB B-10125, recorded January 1939. The Forest version is
> also said to be hard to find, but I have two copies of both, so you
> can’t prove it by me. The Holiday version, rather than the Forest
> version, was reissued on V-Disc 399. Shaw’s recording is oddly paired
> with a medley of waltzes.
> Geoffrey Wheeler
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