[78-L] Alvino Rey and The Kings

[Dan Van Landingham]

The first copy of "Hangover Square" I had was pressed on shellac and had the black label.Same for the
Cootie Williams recording of "Cherry Red".It was recorded in early 1944.That particular recording was
also issued on Hit which I've understood to be another one of Oberstein's labels.When was Elite formed?



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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Wed, April 21, 2010 4:32:36 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Alvino Rey and The Kings


Vinyl Majestics..outa sight. I have one of the Martha Tiltons on vinyl, as well as Alfred Newman's "Captain From Castile". Sounds fabulous..lots better than the Mercury reissue.

dl

> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:29:07 -0700
> From: danvanlandingham at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Alvino Rey and The Kings
> 
> I just had Capitol 78 by Alvino Rey:"The Flight of the Bumble Bee" backed with "Sepulveda".The only Sam
> Donahue Capitol 78 I had was "Melancholy Baby" which I bought in 1978 along with the Rey Capitol 78.
> The Bobby Sherwood Capitol I have is "Sherwood's Forest" plus what may be an original of "The Elk's P-
> arade".The latter has the word "Capitol" in large,cursive script and the dome of the White House is also in
> large print.The Kings were great.The only McKinley 78 I have is a vinyl Majestic of "Hangover Square"
> pressed in red vinyl.The label is white like a promotional copy.I also had another McKinley Majestic pressed on red vinyl but I can't remember the name of the tune.Eddie Sauter did the score for "Hangover 
> Square".I had both "Hangover Square" and Cootie Williams's "Cherry Red" on the black label Majestics.
> I had both "Hangover Square" and "Cherry Red" in 1975.Both came from junk stores.The red vinyl Maj-
> 
> estic of "Hangover Square" I bought in 1978 when the local radio station,KOOS-AM in Coos Bay,Oregon
> closed it's doors that year.It "reopened for business" a couple of days later as KHSN.KOOS went on the
> air back in 1928 when Coos Bay was known as Marshfield.I gave $.25 for it plus a batch of others.
> 
> 
> 
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> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 7:52:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Alvino Rey and The Kings
> 
> At the time (1946) Rey's band had 6 trumpets, 4 trombones, five saxes and
> rhythm. This band seems to be forgotten except for an LP of transcriptions
> on Hindsight with a fascinating piece by George Handy called Stocking Horse.
> Arrangers were Frank Nelson and Billy May. I was surprised when I heard
> these sides years ago; they ARE hot, 180 degrees away from the sides he made
> for Bluebird. I don't think Capitol will ever do a decent reissue of this
> band's output, but the way I understand it, its best music was never
> recorded for the label. They signed a lot of big bands they didn't really
> know what to do with: Bobby Sherwood, Ray McKinley, Rey, Sam Donahue....I'm
> sure there are others.
> 
> The instrument Rey played was the pedal-steel guitar. Reportedly he disliked
> country and hawaiian music.
> 
> Jeff Sultanof
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
> 
> > that must have been one kick-ass group to hear in person. Some of those
> > post-war Capitols are really hot..."Cement Mixer" comes to mind. The King
> > Sisters were stand-outs among all those excellent sister vocal groups...I
> > always thought it odd that the most famous and popular of the sister acts
> > (Andrews) was not among the better ones in terms of the actual music.
> > Perhaps others rank them higher, but to my ears they don't cut it when
> > compared with King, Dinning, Boswell, Clark, McGuire, De Marco and
> > other sister groups. I do like 'em better than the Pickens Sisters!
> >
> >
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