[78-L] Kathleen Lane

[simmonssomer]

If anyone needs transfers to CD.... I have all the Kitty Lanes with Bob 
Chester..all of her sides with Glenn Miller, all of hers with Berigan and 
all 34 Dolores O'Neils with Chester.

Al  Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Kathleen Lane


> 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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