[78-L] Jay Records 10-inch LP - Jack Meltzer - Merit Music

[Thomas Stern]

Hi David, 
  Thanks for the details and confirmation of the Fields.
  George Jellinek worked at the Merit Music Shop, and wrote notes for
some of the Jay albums.  I have not read his book, so perhaps there is
further info there, but didn't find mention of Jay Records in google books excerpts(?).
  The Columbia injunction was for 3010 and named Meltzer - high number in the run I know of - so
assume he was the principal at least up to that issue.
  Anyone have further details?
Thanks.
Best wishes, Thomas.

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The Etting was definitely issued, although my copy doesn't have the jacket. 
Very echoey. But then so was Columbia's release. And my copy of the Fields has 
NO number on the jacket and is numbered WCF 1 on the labels. Neither jacket nor 
labels say anything except "Temperance Lecture", ignoring "The Day I Drank a 
Glass of Water" and the sides aren't even joined. Matrix numbers are MM1-LP and 
MM2-LP.

I didn't know until now that this was Meltzer's label! Or was only the Fields 
issue from him, given the matrix numbers?

dl

On 10/15/2010 6:50 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> Anyone know of any JAY RECORDS releases other than the following ???
>
> 2001 (also listed as WCF-1)  W.C.Fields Temperance Lecture
> 3002 John McCormack  Irish Songs
> 3003 Norman MacKaye sings ballads of Scotland's Bard Robert Burns
> 3006 The Original Memphis Five
> 3007 John McCormack  Love Songs
> 3010 Ethel Waters
> 3013 Gwilym Williams sings Welsh Folk Songs
>
> Has anyone seen a copy of the Fields release with the alternate catalog number?
>
> I've not found much on the web, other than an article in BILLBOARD about an
> injunction sought by COLUMBIA to suppress a proposed RUTH ETTING release.
> Was that album actually issued?
>
> Thanks!
> Best wishes, Thomas.
> ______________________________________________

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