[78-L] Another dance band question

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Columbia recorded several excellent bands in Chicago during 1933-24, 
> during
> the World's Fair,  including Charles Agnew,  Earl Burtnett,  Ben Bernie,
> etc.,  all of whom were playing long gigs there during the fair.
> For all of the above,  Rust states that they were recorded in Chicago.
>
> The exception are the four sides by Mark Fisher and his Edgewater Beach
> Hotel Orch,  which Rust says were recorded in New York.  Is that right?  I
> know Fisher was at the Edgewater Beach hotel around mid-1933.  Why would
> they haul the band to NY to make four sides when they were recording 
> Agnew,
> McCoy and others in Chicago around the same time?
>
> Is there a way to tell from the master numbers where the sides were 
> actually
> recorded?
>
> BTW,  the Fisher of Black Eyed Susan Brown b/w Lovey is one of my all-time
> fave records...hot stuff!
>
The Edgewater Beach Hotel...on Lake Michigan, on the north side of 
Chicago...
was a noted institution...so that name was quickly assigned as a "nom du
disque" for various (usually Selvin-led) dance bands of the late twenties?!

Steven C. Barr