[78-L] Standard Radio Transcription 1028/1029

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>  On 8/5/2010 9:12 AM, Elizabeth McLeod wrote:
>> on 8/5/10 2:26 AM Michael Biel wrote:
>>>   On 8/5/2010 12:47 AM, 78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
>>>> Also, I was told that this and other records in this collection are 
>>>> from
>>> someone named Jack Frost, supposedly connected with either Victor 
>>> records
>>> or Standard Transcriptions.  Does that ring a bell?
>>> There was a Jack Frost Melody Moments program on NBC Blue from 1929 to
>>> 6/25/34.  Eugene Ormandy is credited on the program thru 7/2/31 while
>>> Joe Pasternak is credited after 7/8/31.  I have no idea if this is the
>>> name of a person.
>> Jack Frost was a popular brand of sugar in the Depression era -- and I
>> believe they were the sponsor of this particular program.
>> Elizabeth
> They were still around in the 50s, it was the brand my mother used, and
> I have their "quick dissolving sugar" jingle running thru my brain but I
> never knew all of the words.  I had started writing the reply thinking
> that I remembered a Baby Rose Marie recording in the Library of Congress
> on a Jack Frost program, but it was probably Jack Arthur.  I have a
> picture of the disc on my microfilms, but I'm not checking.  When I
> realized my mistake I looked in the Hickerson guide anyway.  Have any of
> these shown up?  He doesn't list any.  People would kill for an Ormandy
> program.
>
IIRC I have a couple of Ormandy sides on 12" Judson discs; these seem to
have been intended for broadcast (and as such might(?) be considered
"transcriptions?" They are labeled "Pressed but not recorded by Okeh."

Steven C. Barr