[78-L] Subject: Re: MAJOR RECORDS

[David Lennick]

12-inch discs,  not 23-inch discs. Blame the pitcher of daiquiris we were 
consuming over the last hour.

And in other news, Lou Gehrig may not have had Lou Gehrig's Disease. Go figure.

On 8/17/2010 10:25 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 8/17/2010 8:14 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>>     On 8/17/2010 7:51 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> I was just collating my Gennett Sound Effects discs and noticed that one has a
>>> paste-on at the bottom of each label..THOMAS J. VALENTINO Electrical
>>> Transcriptions, 729 7th Avenue, New York, N.Y.
>>>
>>> dl
>>     This is one of the addresses listed in the 1937 Broadcasting magazine
>> Yearbook for Gennett.  Tom J. Valentino is listed as the manager, while
>> Harry Genett is the manager of the LA address 1344 So Flower St.  Lee A
>> Butt is the manager in Richmond, Ind.  (Pause for laughs and snide
>> remarks.)
>
> Nyuk nyuk nyuk. And 1344 So Flower Street is the address on all of the Speedy Q
> sound effects discs I just looked at.
>
> Masque and Standard are also on the list although they do
>> not mention sound effects specifically for Standard.  Major and Speedy Q
>> are not listed.
>>
>> In my 1951 Turnbull book he shows a NYC address for Gennet as 67 W 44th,
>> as well as the two Starr Piano Richmond Ind and 1344 So Flower St LA
>> addresses it shares with Speedy-Q.  But what is strange that I didn't
>> notice yesterday that the NYC address for Speedy-Q is Charles Mickelson
>> (sic.)!   25 W 47th.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> Radio program syndicators were a logical outlet for sound effects discs..when I
> went through Spence Caldwell's offices on Jarvis Street before he shut the
> business in 1969 (and according to rumor, left the remaining discs in the
> basement which was then paved over for a parking lot) there were a number of
> SFX discs, and there were dozens of Speedy Q discs in the holdings of G. N.
> MacKenzie Limited. Caldwell and Mackenzie split the assets of All Canada some
> time in the early fifties, and my Standard catalog has S. W. Caldwell's name
> and address printed on the inside cover. I've seen EMI sound effects with one
> of the above names printed on the label at the source, not pasted over.
>
> Interesting side point..Standard Radio also offered a "Standard Program
> Library", presumably the usual 16-inch discs of various types of music and
> voice tracks and production aids we often run across, as "a complete music
> library of 5000 selections for outright sale". Also a Mood Music library on ten
> double-faced 23-inch discs (I've never run across these) for $75, AND..get
> this, li'l cowpokes..the Sons of the Pioneers Library, 44 double-faced 12-inch
> 33RPM records, "hard to find tunes recorded in 1934". Price $95.00 complete.
> This was in 1953.
>
> dl
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