[78-L] Total Recall

[david.diehl at hensteeth.com]

Connor says "Did You Mean It?" Vi 25469 was deleted January 20, 1937 and implies that "Goodnight My Love" 25461 had at first passed unnoticed by Decca. He also notes that some copies of the replacement 25461 (coupled with "T'ain't no Use") also used the Fitzgerald version.
Victor issued Helen Forest's "Any Old Time" in April of '44 because Shaw's contract paid him $25K per quarter whether he was recording or not so RCA kept a lot of Shaw's discs in the catalog. It's not as common as the Bluebird but I wouldn't call it 'scarce.' Note that Helen muffs the lyric, too. I always wondered if Shaw prompted her to do that.
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From: Geoffrey Wheeler [mailto:dialjazz at verizon.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:32 PM
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Subject: [78-L] Total Recall

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question that hasn’t been addressed is where Russ Connor might have gotten his information about the recordings being withdrawn.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_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l