[78-L] Benny Goodman 12/8/34 Lacquer

[Michael Biel]

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> Russ Connor’s Benny Goodman: Listen to His Legacy lists two Let’s Dance 
> broadcast selections for December 8, 1934  arranged by Joe Lippman but 
> not “Love is Just Around the Corner” or “Georgia Jubilee.”

As I mentioned, the two discs with those other four selections were 
owned by Mort Savada who was given them by Joe Lippman..  They were not 
kept in his shop, but were on a bookshelf in his living room where he 
showed them to me over thirty years ago, and I wrote about them in my 
PhD dissertation.  This one matches them.  I believe that the family 
still owns them, that they were not a part of the unfortunate Syracuse 
University removal of his collection to an off-campus Syracuse warehouse. 


> By the way, Connor’s “Wrappin’ It Up” book is now 
> selling on the Internet for $200 or more.
>   

Gee, I'm glad I got a copy as an inexpensive remainder a number of years 
ago.  Thanks for reminding me I needed to check this.  My disc is not 
included, but an earlier broadcast of August 14, 1934 is now detailed to 
have been recorded by the same recording studio on commission for Art 
Rollini, so they have the whole broadcast. They are described as being 
12-inch center start acetates (sic) like the December ones are, but the 
December labels give the choice of 80 or 33 1/3 RPM, and the book cites 
them as being at 78.  It would be interesting to see if this studio 
really did use the 80 indicated on their labels.  There is a note about 
a reference on page 317 in the 1988 Legacy volume.  I only have the 1984 
edition which is disowned by Connor.   If these are indeed lacquers 
instead of uncoated, they now would be almost the oldest American 
lacquers, probably Presto..  Seth Winner has some orchestral airchecks 
on lacquer from July 1934 and they are seen briefly in Leah's documentary. 

Mike Biel  mviwl at mbiel.com
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