[78-L] Standard Radio Transcription 1028/1029

[David Lennick]

Maybe he was an unpopular A&R man, and the inspiration for the song "Little Jack Frost, Get Lost".

dl
 
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 20:09:46 -0700
> From: 78records at cdbpdx.com
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Standard Radio Transcription 1028/1029
> 
> Found yet another reference to Jack Frost, this time at RCA in Los Angeles, c.1947.
> 
> http://78records.cdbpdx.com/SRTJF/
> 
> This collection keeps posing new questions. Haven't seen or heard this Christmas record yet, but this is the envelope used to ship it to Mr Jack Frost and RCA. Apparently, many of the records in this collection were acquired from Mr Jack Frost who worked at RCA, including the SNow WHite and Fats Waller 'Sample Records'. 
> 
> I'm not able to put the pieces of this puzzle together myself. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for all your patience! CDB
> 
> --- On Thu, 8/5/10, 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:
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> > From: 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Standard Radio Transcription 1028/1029
> > To: "78-l Online" <78-l at 78online.com>
> > Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 9:37 AM
> > Thanks for this great info!  So
> > this transcription is a product of the 1930s Depression /
> > prohibition era?  I thought the reference to Swing
> > Shifters might have put it in WWII era.  Still haven't
> > found much about Carol Gilbert.
> > 
> > Thanks!  CDB
> > 
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> > Elizabeth McLeod lizmcl at midcoast.com 
> > Thu Aug 5 06:12:13 PDT 2010 
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> > on 8/5/10 2:26 AM Michael Biel wrote:
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> > >  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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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