[78-L] Request for label info

[Randy Watts]

Oops, sorry about that. Dodo Marmarosa is the composer of "Escape." The number is indeed credited to Ray Linn's orchestra.

That's what happens when you take a quick glance rather than a good look.

Randy

--- On Sat, 8/7/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Request for label info
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 4:47 PM
> 
> Lord shows WB 114 as by Ray Linn and notes the Signature
> reissues, which aren't in Ruppli..there's a big gap between
> 660 and 680 where the renumbered Encores would be.
> 
>  
> 
> Ray Linn
> [L4774-7]
> Ray Linn And His Orchestra: 
> Ray Linn (tp) Joe Howard (tb) Mahlon Clark (cl,as) Harry
> Klee (as,fl-1) Deacon Dunn (ts) Tommy Todd (p,arr) Al
> Hendrickson (g) Phil Stephens (b) Jackie Mills (d) Sonny
> Burke, George Schwartz, Dodo Marmarosa, Tommy Todd (arr) 
> Hollywood, December 14, 1945
> 111 (665)    Serenade in sevenths   
> Encore 512, Signature 28121
> 112 (666)    Caravan (mc out; tt,sb arr)
> (1)    Encore 510, Signature 28122, Hi-Tone 133,
> Franklin
>         Mint 75
> 113 (667)    Tea time (dm arr)   
> Eccore 510, Signature 28121, Hi-Tone 133
> 114 (668)    Escape (dm arr)     
>      512, Signature 28122
> Note: Second set of master numbers as assigned by
> Signature.
> 
> 
> dl
>  
> > Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:24:55 -0700
> > From: rew1014 at yahoo.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Request for label info
> > 
> > The following are four of the Encore matrixes in
> question:
> > 
> > WB-102 - "Encore Essence" - Sam Donahue and His Swing
> Seven" (Encore 500)
> > 
> > WB-104 - "Catch as Catch Can" - Sam Donahue and His
> Swing Seven" (Encore 502)
> > 
> > WB-106 - "Crazy Rhythm" - The Page Cavanaugh Trio
> (Encore 504)
> > 
> > WB-114 - "Escape" - Dodo Marmarosa (Encore 512)
> > 
> > I don't know what WB-206 is, but WB-204 and WB-205 are
> by Edie and Rack (Encore 104) from an album titled A NIGHT
> AT THE GALA. I don't have the whole album, just that one
> disc. If someone has the set, though, they might check and
> see if WB-206 is the matrix for one of the other discs in
> it. Just a thought.
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 8/6/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Subject: [78-L] Request for label info
> > To: "78-l at 78online.com"
> <78-l at 78online.com>
> > Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 9:38 PM
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is from Michael Feinstein. Anyone have any
> possibilities? And I've checked the Signature masters in the
> Decca books..can't find the S- number listed there.
> Signature jumped from SRC 999 to SRC 7100 and had several
> other series, but not one with S-1175.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "I have several stampers for 10" 78's that I''m trying
> to identify. They're possibly from an LA based studio. Maybe
> they're Encore records because I have a note that the person
> who gave them to me thought they might have been from that
> company? Anyway here are the Matrix numbers and if you have
> any clue as to what they might be, I'd be grateful-
> > WB102
> > WB104
> > WB106
> > WB114
> > WB206
> > 
> > 
> > I also have a lacquer from my Radio Recorders discs
> that sounds like Dinah Washington singing a song called "I
> Want A Rich Man" with a matrix: S-1175-1. Could this be
> Signature records?"
> > 
> > Thanks
> > dl