[78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

[Dan Van Landingham]

I had an album on Capitol that dated from 1972 which was part of their "Capitol Jazz Classics" series and 
some of the dates,according to them,dated from 1948 such as my old copy of "That's Right" with "I Got it
Bad" on the reverse with a great Mary Ann McCall vocal and a nice alto solo by Herman himself.My copy
of the latter is on a 78.It was the purple label with the silver band around it.As I recall,the silver band was 
gone by then:I had a Capitol 78 of Kenton's "September Song" back in the late '60s and it dated from 1951 according to the discographic information that was in the late Art Pepper's semi-autobiography 
"Straight Life" from 1982.Pepper left Kenton around 1952 according to him.The silver banded Capitols
had black labels from '42 until '47.I left a number of them back in Lometa which included my copy of
"Travelin' Light" by Billie Holiday with Paul Whiteman conducting an orchestra.Al Hendrickson once told
me that he was offered stock in Capitol in '42 and turned it down.He also claimed that Capitol used to do
their recording at C.P. McGregor's recording studio when the label started out.I still have a number of those early Capitols here but I need to get the rest out here.I also had many of Freddie Slack's first reco-
them plus a number of Capitols by trumpeter Billy Butterfield's failed big band from 1946.Speaking of 
Kenton,I also had what may have been an original issue of "Eager Beaver".As I recall,the word "Capitol"
was in large cursive script and the outline of the nation's capitol was also quite large.The later black label
Capitols had smaller print and I had a few Slack reissues from then.



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From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

Herman recorded for MGM from 1951-53 when he signed with Capitol. He had an
interesting contract with MGM; he recorded dance sides and 'commercial'
recordings for the label, and recorded more hip material for a label he
co-owned with Howie Richmond (the publisher TRO is also Richmond's, although
he has retired) called Mars. Distribution was non-existent according to
Woody, so Mars died a quiet death.

Howie is another old line independent music publisher who really should
write a book about his life. A fascinating, wonderful man who was an honest
guy most of the time.

Jeff Sultanof


Herman also recorded for MGM and I found some of their 45s at the same
> shop.I have no idea when he
> recorded them but they had to have been sometime in the late '40s.
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