[78-L] Essex label-Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy

[David Lennick]

Essex was one of those great Philadelphia labels in the 50s. Bill Haley 
recorded for them in 1951. Monty Kelly was responsible for lots of 
instrumentals on Essex, and the label also picked up pop instrumentals from 
English Columbia, including the hit (before Eddie Fisher, that is) version of 
"O Mein Papa" by Eddie Calvert. Somewhere along the line, the Somerset (mono) 
and Stereo Fidelity (stereo) labels became dominant, with their 101 Strings.

Healy and Hayes were popular radio and TV performers and also had the starring 
roles in "The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T" although the names you associate with it 
today are Tommy Rettig (pre Lassie) and Hans Conreid.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Last I checked Mary Healy was still with us...she made some nice records in 
> the late 30s as well.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Whipkey" <suuford at msn.com>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:39 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Essex label-Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy
> 
> 
>> .Just  came across and played  a  grand old trip down memory lane (for me 
>> anyway) of an Essex record with Peter Lind Hayes and May Healy.  It's 
>> Crazy Mixed up Song, and Lonesome Lover.  I particularly love  Crazy Mixed 
>> up song  and every time I hear  the melody played (Isn't it Stars and 
>> Stripes Forever?) I automatically transpose to the lyrics of this song. 
>> Don't recall ever  owning any other Essex.  Pretty sure I know how this 
>> record  got into my possession.  It is stamped with a number and  hand 
>> written on both labels 3/9/54, also in a heavy sleeve, all of which tells 
>> me I got it while working at my first radio job at KWBE Beatrice, 
>> (yes-pronounced Bee-att-russ), Nebraska.  Who knows  anything about the 
>> Essex label and the presumed demise by now of Hayes and Healy, who, as I 
>> recall, were husband and wife.
>> Jim Whipkey