[78-L] Total Recall

[Jeff Sultanof]

 It is true that he had a difficult relationship with RCA. They were not
thrilled with his 12" recordings of the Paul Jordan pieces and the Eddie
Sauter "Summertime/Girl With the Flaccid Air, and they didn't like that he
rejected most the pop tunes he was offered to record, sticking with older
pop songs he liked. In fact, history has been very good to Shaw. The
majority of his 1945-6 book was recorded by Victor. I cannot recall another
band where almost  its entire library was preserved for posterity by a
commercial record company.

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> I've had the Bluebird Billy Holiday disc several times..not scarce at all.
> Victor probably put out Helen's version when moving Shaw onto the higher
> priced label. They were probably glad to get rid of the guy when he moved
> over to Musicraft in 1946 because there are a lot of unissued Victor sides,
> including an album of mostly Gershwin tunes..numbers scheduled, issued only
> on AFRS of all places.
>
> And Victor screamed bloody murder when Shaw recut Begin the Beguine and
> Musicraft had to replace that side. I believe the album containing it IS
> rare. On the other hand, I have it and so does a disc jockey in Edmonton.
>
>