[78-L] Another dance band question

[David Lennick]

On 8/22/2010 12:17 AM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> 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
>
>
> No,  Steven,  not in this case.  If you had read my entire post,  you would
> have noted that I had established that Mark Fisher (a real person,  long
> part of the Chicago music scene) WAS leading a band at the hotel at the time
> the four sides were made.
>
> Nor do the sides resemble any Selvins from '32 or '33.   They have a very
> crisp and swinging sound,  with very distinctive soloists.
>
> If anyone has any actual info,  please let me know.
>
> Taylor
>
"Hotel Pennsylvania Music" or similar was used by Columbia for dozens of 
Velvet-Tone records..that might have been the nom de disque SCB was thinking of.

dl