[78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

[Jeff Sultanof]

When you say that you had an original copy of "Eager Beaver," do you have
the alternate version where the melody is played by the tenor sax instead of
the piano? This take was issued by mistake and recalled. It does appear on a
Mosaic box of complete Kenton from 1943-47.

I have no idea how many copies of this take circulated but there aren't very
many around.

Just checking. And yes, McGregor's was the studio of choice for Capitol, the
reason why those records sound so wonderful. The story goes that one of the
owners of the studio had he inside painted, and the beautiful reverberation
disappeared.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 7:33:00 PM
> 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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