[78-L] National Records

[Jeff Sultanof]

The Jubilee series for AFRS has been fodder for bootleggers since the 70s.
Alamac specialized in releasing airchecks of jazz artists. I treasured the
Barnet 1949 big band album. I remember when the Alamac's were all over Sam
Goody's at Rockefeller Plaza, LPs, cassettes, and eight-tracks all.

All too often Jubilees are transferred at the wrong speed. One side of Hep
LP 1 (side 2) was insanely fast. Thank goodness for variable speed
turntables.

Jeff Sultanof

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Dan Van Landingham <
danvanlandingham at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I heard the same thing about Johnny Hartman whom I'd never heard of until I
> found an album of him on
> Roost plus the music he did that was in that movie Eastwood did of "Bridges
> of Madison County".I know
>
> of the material he did for National.I'm glad you filled me in on the Alamac
> label.It was a bootleg label from
> what I was once told by Wally Heider.I spoke to him once back in 1978 after
> he left Portland,Oregon for
> L.A.I remember him telling me that Alamac was owned by some company called
> American Themes and
> Tapes.I once had a Bunny Berigan LP on that label and some of that same
> Eckstine material showed up on
> some cassette tapes back in the '80s.I also remember seeing a Fletcher
> Henderson Alamac at a K Mart
> store in Coos Bay,Oregon some thirty years ago.I also had an album of Boyd
> Raeburn on Joyce which was
> a Jubilee program.Where was the voice of Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman?There was
> a LaserLight CD out back
> in 1991 I bought that must have also been a Jubilee show as Whitman's voice
> was heard;I also have that one on a cassette I bought a number of years ago
> at a department store in Roseburg,Oregon.The store was
> called "Pick N Save" as I recall.Thanks again for the info.
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