[78-L] National Records

[Dan Van Landingham]

The bootleg LP I had was from the Plantation Club somewhere in southern California from 1945.I liked his
recording of "I Stay in the Mood for You".I felt that it was the best of the blues stuff he did considering that
he hated the blues as he told Barbara Hodgkins in a 1947 article for either Downbeat or Metronome.Geor-
ge T. Simon reprinted part of the interview in his 1967 book "The Big Bands" originally published by Mac-
Millan.



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From: simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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If you're interested in  Eckstine band material I know a guy who has a good 
deal of that live stuff. He told me that he has a complete Jubilee from 
March 9, 1945...some March 1945 air checks from The Club Plantation, some 
early 1945 Jubilees with Sarah Vaughn, . Further, he sez that he owns all of 
the studio stuff  from the DeLuxe and National labels.(except National 9030 
and 9123.)
He's a busy chap and has to be treated with some care and planning..
Further he tells me that he owns almost all of Fats Navarrro's recordings.
What a be-bop nut cake eh?

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 2:56 PM
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> The best sounding Nationals I heard were the ones that Billy Eckstine cut 
> in 1946 with a string section.I
> wondered if they were cut at Radio Recorders.I have them somewhere on a 
> Savoy LP called "Mr.B and
> the Band".I should replace it with a CD copy as I gave the LP alot of hard 
> use.I bought it new back in
> 1978.Prior to that I had a bootleg LP of Eckstine on Alamac I bought new 
> in Denver back in 1975.It was
> said to be the only album of the Eckstine band live.I recently found a CD 
> copy of that same album.I got it
> off of ebay a couple of years ago.It had a great version of the 1928 song 
> "Together" which had a good tr-
> umpet solo by Fats Navarro who was one of my favourites.I was listening to 
> an album of Miles Davis which is a German import.It has no personnel and 
> Davis was in relatively good form but he was no Fats
> Navarro in my opinion.I'm also a trumpet player myself although I 
> eventually switched into saxophone se-
> ction playing tenor then baritone sax.Navarro,from what I remember via an 
> article in Downbeat in the early
> '70s,started out playing tenor in some big band in Key West,Florida.He 
> struck me as a no nonsense kind of
> player who didn't clown around the way Dizzy did.Ray Linn was in the 
> orchestra that backed Eckstine on
> those late 1946 dates which were cut in the L.A. area as I recall.
>
>
>
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> From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Sun, April 4, 2010 11:35:05 AM
> Subject: [78-L] National Records
>
> Dan Van Landingham comments: “I was paraphrasing a writer named Charlie
> Gillette who wrote a book on the history of Atlantic Records and he
> alluded to National Records and its
> founder Al Green.He described National's records as being a mixture of
> manure and gravel.”
>
> I was told years ago, that the owner of National Records had another
> business that produced some kind of material  he decided to use for
> pressing his records. I forget what the material was said to be but
> everyone acknowledged it resulted in quite inferior playing surfaces. I
> have quite a few Nationals; some play better than others.
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