[78-L] Kathleen Lane

[Dan Van Landingham]

You're correct.I once had the early to mid '50s album of "Bunny Berigan Plays Again" which,as I'm sure you know,was a 10" LP.It  was the silver label RCA "Collector's Se-
ries".I didn't have the jacket to that album.I found it at a junk store some 30 years or more ago.Has anyone ever done a musical biography on Dolores O'Neill?I passed on a
couple of Bob Chester Bluesbirds with Kitty Lane just to acquire the O'Neill stuff.Lookswise,O'Neill was kind of hot herself.I once saw a picture George T. Simon reprinted
of her in his book "The Big Bands".The one picture I saw of Lane just showed her getting on the bus with Glenn Miller's band.According to Simon,she later went to work for
Isham Jones who was another  favourite bandleader of mine.I had a very battered copy of "More Than Ever" circa 1937 or '38 which I used to do as a tenor sax piece.It was
on the old blue and gold Vocalion "striped" label which ran vertical from the top to the bottom.




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From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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Sent: Sat, April 17, 2010 8:22:01 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kathleen Lane

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From: "Geoffrey Wheeler" <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> Referring to Kathleen Lane, Dan Van Landingham says: “My favourite
> recording of hers was Berigan's "'Deed I Do" which I heard back in 1965
> as a 14 year old via the album the "Bunny Berigan Memorial Album".
>
> Other than the 12-inch Victor recording of “I Can’t Get Started,” my
> first real exposure to Berigan recordings on Victor was the Memorial
> Album. I, too, greatly enjoyed “Deed I Do.” I still occasionally see
> the Memorial album, usually not in good shape. Quite a few must have
> been released. It is much harder to find the original Berigan scroll
> and round-gold Victors. It took me perhaps 6 or 7 years to acquire all
> of them. Years ago, Frank Driggs told me that, on average, about 5000
> Berigan Victors were pressed of any given issue. This suggests Berigan
> was not a big seller but sold enough to justify recording him. RCA
> Victor issued several Berigan 10-inch LPs in the early 1950s but took
> forever to reissue all the recordings on 12-inch LP. Some albums have
> unreadable liner notes because the type is reversed out against some
> horrible color.
>
Consider that this was, first, in the middle of the "Depression"...and also
during a period when records were being abandond in favour of radio
broadcasts! Also, note that ARC used to release about a thousand copies
of each Billie Holiday record, knowing that several hundred copies would
be sold; this meant the records would return a predictable profit...?!

Steven C. Barr 

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