[78-L] Happy Valentines day--or not!!

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Wed Feb 17 21:00:37 PST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Whipkey" <suuford at msn.com>
>  And when I saw this,  knew I  had  seen my copy of Cut the mustard 
> earlier today, but  it decided to disappear, believe  IIRC,  was recorded 
> by Gisele McKenzie and Helen O'Connell.   and  in what is probably a 
> sloppy seque,  What I did find  instead of the Mustard anymore song was 
> TWO copies of  "They All Recorded to Beat the Ban" On Damon label, by Jon 
> and Sondra Steele.  It would be my best guess this was  issued  in the 
> late 40s  with the ban on  new songs or whatever it was, I was a mere 
> child, but  my lingering memory of those days was  a disclaimer  on the 
> radio every time they played a song  which ended with   mention of  the 
> musicians union and  ended  by saying James C. Petrillo.
>
"They All Recorded..." was cut JUST before the second AFM battle in 1948; it 
probably
dates from 12/??/47...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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