[78-L] Varsity and related, was RE: Identifying vocalists

[David Lennick]

I've never seen a Varsity album either (or a straight banana). Lots of Philharmonics though. Trust Obie to find a niche..when rubber was rationed, he managed to get the Firestone stores to sell phonograph records! Reissues from Varsity and Royale, pirated classical stuff from Telefunken including some he'd previously put on Royale and licensed to Monkey Ward, some legit stuff from Victor and Columbia including a Frankie Carle album issued anonymously (!), and a better sounding pressing of Will Osborne's "Man Who Comes Around" than I'd ever heard on Varsity.

 

Davis put out a lot of Obie's material as well, like an album of Jan Peerce and one of Marian Anderson which actually contained master pressings of her early German recordings.

 

dl

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 23:44:59 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] Identifying vocalists
> 
> Sorry, the Trumbauer album was not in Varsity but Davis, owned by Joe 
> Davis. I’ve never seen a Varsity album so I don’t know if the company 
> ever issued any (I collect 78 jazz book albums, by the way). 
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