[78-L] Bud Roman..Who he?.. [FWD]

[David Lennick]

Tops used real names, to my knowledge..Scatman Crothers is on a number of 
tracks on those 4-tune EP 78s. Mimi Martel was on World Transcriptions in the 
50s, and definitely at a time when World was using real names.

dl

Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I remember seeing many a TOPS recording by Bud Roman and The Toppers.The only thing I can remember is that his group covered the likes of The Four Aces and The Crew Cuts.I had some TOPS
> 78s once and there were a number of them in the collection.My parents once bought an old Philco ra-
> dio/phonograph combination for $10 in 1958 from some friends.They bought it new in late 1945 and
> there were a number of other 78 rpm cover labels such as Value.Years later,around 1966,I once saw
> a number of other labels-Park and Gilmore were two-that looked like a TOPS record and they even
> had the same batch of artists like singer Mimi Martel(her name sounded like someone in an Erle Stanley
> Gardner "Perry Mason" novel),band leader Lew Raymond and country/western performer Bob Sandy.
> The Values didn't list the name of the artists they recorded.I wound up with the Philco and played it 
> 'til it quit around 1965.
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>> Don Chichester wrote:
>>> I picked up a '50s Tops 78 of "Be My Love", sung by
>> Bud Roman with the Hal Lomen Orchestra.  Anybody know
>> about this singer?  Nice mellow voice; no Mario Lanza.
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>> Don
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> Thank God for small blessings!
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