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

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
>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.
>
I have always felt that these semi-anonymous, and often multi-track, 78's of 
the fifties
are the last "unexplored area" in 78rpm discography! In fact, I buy them (if 
they are
appropriately cheap...?!) and have started a database to try and track 
whether the
different tracks were ever issued under different "noms du disque?!" I so 
far have
about 30 of them; all I have established so far is that the TRACKS and not 
the
sides were separately recorded (one very occasionally can run across a given
track combined with different other tracks on different records...!).

Steven C. Barr