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

[David Lennick]

Palda, Essex, BBS (only hit was probably Al Martoony's "Here In My Heart"), 
Somerset, Trans-World. David L. Miller turned it into the 101 Strings cash cow 
in the late 50s.

dl

Jim Whipkey wrote:
> 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
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