[78-L] Bob Chester and KathleenLane

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Apr 15 14:07:17 PDT 2010


Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> Did Kitty Lane join Bob Chester in 1939?I know  she was with Bunny Berigan from November of 1938
> until mid March of '39 but I was under the impression that Dolores O'Neill was still with the band.I don't
> place Kitty Lane with Chester until 1941.O'Neill's recordings of "With the Wind and the Rain in Your
> Hair","We Three(My Echo,My Shadow and Me)" date from 1940.I have several other original Chester
> Bluebirds from that era and the catalogue numbers which are in the B-104XXX seem to date from 1940.
> The Bluebirds I do have from 1941-12 era are in the B-11XXX series.I saw a Bob Chester 78 once
> with a Lane vocal but as O'Neill totally knocked me out when I first heard her back in 1970(from the RCA/Reader's Digest set "The Great Band Era"-it was the aforementioned "With the Wind and the Rain
> in Your Hair").I dug Lane as well.The only other record I have of  Lane is "Sweet Stranger" which she did
> for Glenn Miller on Brunswick.It's the only Miller record I have of Miller on that label.
> 
> 
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Lane is on the Bluebird version of "Shoot The Sherbet To Me, Herbert", 
August 8, 1939. She's also on the previous session of July 31.

      Julian Vein


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