[78-L] Covered all over from head to toe

[David Lennick]

From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:35:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Covered all over from head to toe
> 
> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <bratcher at pdq.net>
> >
> Note that "Standirt," in spite of the similarity, is NOT
> the "Standard" RCA label which was used post-ban
> to issue Victor "ethnic" record!
> 
> We can only assume that the label was one of many
> (my fovourite is on WHIZ!) created to sell risque
> "party records"...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 

No, these were products of Standard Transcriptions, who also brought you the famous Standard Sound Effects..same labels. They'd send out a gag record, possibly once a year, featuring some of their artists (but who the heck were John Charles Raymond and "Ann Sheldon"?).

 

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