[78-L] TOPS artists (was Bud Roman..Who he?.. )

[Jeff Sultanof]

David,

In fact, when I spoke to him in 2003, he was trying to put together a deal
with the new owner to organize a big reissue series of sides from many of
those 40s labels. He missed the record business very much, and he liked
putting together deals.

He also was not thrilled with those Simitar releases (I once had almost all
of them), and yes, they were not available for very long. I did feel that
they did a nice job on the Black & White Lena Horne's, and I also liked the
Johnny Desmond album on Tops that they reissued (with arrangements by John
"Star Wars" Williams and Bill Holman). I've been waiting for a really good
CD of the Gerald Wilson big band from 1945-49, and I believe that Pickwick
owned most if not all of the sides. I even discussed it with Gerald once,
and he was enthusiastic.

Jeff Sultanof

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:04 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Intersound owned Pickwick, and probably the rights to a ton of 40s labels
> like
> Black & White, and had just sold it off when I started working for them in
> 1990. Too bad because there would have been legal access to a lot of great
> material, if not the original masters. Instead they wound up on horrible
> CDs on
> a label called Simitar or something like that, which I think disappeared
> quickly.
>
> dl
>
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