[78-L] National Records

[Jeff Sultanof]

ASFIK, the Spotlite album is pretty much the same as the Alamac. There are
only a handful of really well-recorded Eckstine broadcasts that really show
what the band could do. It also appeared in a film primarily for black
audiences, and at least two songs were from this film were also released as
Soundies. I once had them on some VHS tape. As all of us know, Soundies are
all over the place as far as video; it would be great if Leonard Maltin
reissued his four-volume set of Soundies that was released on VHS. He told
me that he had to really search for Soundies in good condition.

Jeff Sultanof

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>wrote:

> Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
> > An important Lp of live recordings by the Billy Eckstine band made in
> > February and March 1945 was issued in 1972 on 12-inch (E) Spotlite 100.
> > The original issue was 100 copies. Tony Williams, proprietor of
> > Spotlite, then pressed a general issue of the album as he began to
> > reissue Dial 78 recordings on LP i a 100 series. Savoy two-disc package
> > SLJ  2214 dubbed “Mr. B and the Band” was issued in 1976. If I recall
> > correctly, it includes some alternate takes of certain recordings but
> > not all of them. Also left out were certain breakdowns that Savoy had
> > but chose not to issue.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> I find Eckstine's singing tedious in the extreme. As I recall, he was no
> great shakes on valve-trombone. I had all the Emarcy 12" LP reissues at
> one time, and got rid of them. I have one Japanese Mercury LP of the
> better stuff. Savoy reissues of National sides were never as good as the
> 12" Emarcys (e.g. Joe Turner and Charlie Ventura).
>
>      Julian Vein
>
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