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

[Jim Whipkey]

Andrea, yes it's the same label.
and to DL, thanks for your help.  I guess  I did not know about the label because  my prime  record buying days were  past, I think I acquired  most of my stuff from the stations where I worked, a nice perk from being in radio.  They were always throwing  records away, no matter where I worked, now I wish I had taken more.  I think I remember  Hayes and Healy on some weekly radio show, but  can't  pull the details together. The  record clearly states: Mfgd by Palda Record Co. Phila, PA. 
Thanks for the input.
Jim Whipkey

  I have a couple of Bill Haley With Haley's Comets on Essex... 321 Crazy Man,
  Crazy/ Whatcha Gonna Do and 399 Farewell-So Long-Goodbye/ Rock The Joint
  It's an orange label with black logo- is this the Essex to which you are
  referring?

  Andrea

  On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Jim Whipkey <suuford at msn.com<mailto:suuford at msn.com>> wrote:

  >
  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