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

[David Lennick]

Odd you should mention Gerald Wilson. I'm trying to deal with 9 years of not 
having filed anything and just came across one of his United Artist records.

So who now owns this stuff?

dl

Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> 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
>>
>>