[78-L] Boris Rose

[David Lennick]

Boris was a double agent or possibly a triple agent. Quite a character. Alan 
Lavinger who was manager of Rare Records when it closed told me that Morros 
financed the recording of the Spellbound album by taking orders for it from 
every record store in town (wish he'd hit one more store so he could have 
afforded a piano that would stay in tune).

dl

On 10/26/2010 4:45 PM, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I've never heard of Boris Rose but what of Boris Morros?I know of his ARA label
> from the mid '40s as
> my late friend Patti Hendrickson(wife of guitarist Al Hendrickson)was looking
> for Carmichael's recording
> of "Memphis in June" which I had but wound up broken.I had a few of those
> ARAs.Somehow,the Com-
> munist Party was somehow involved with the label.Whether it was the American
> Communist Party or the
> Soviets I don't know.I was told of that around 20 years ago by a man who lived
> here.He died in 1996.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Mon, October 25, 2010 7:05:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Boris Rose
>
> Boris would cut a lacquer of anything for anyone. There must be thousands of
> his dubs floating around..I have an entire Duke Ellington concert that hasn't
> been issued complete although he put out parts of it on LP, and the lacquers
> are definitely from him (identifiable by the typed labels). Many years ago on
> an early trip to New York, I asked Meltzer at Merit Music if he had the Rudolph
> Valentino record. "Come back tomorrow" he said, and the next day I was given a
> ten-inch 33RPM lacquer of it in return for my ten bucks. After years of
> experience with these things I recognized it as one of Boris's dubs (good
> transfer, too).
>
> Many of his discs used the blank sides of pre-printed labels such as Temple and
> Sentry.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/25/2010 6:27 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Years back - during a rare trip to a London Record Fair - I purchased a
>>> collection of around one hundred acetates, of various diameters and speeds, all
>>> it seems recorded off air by Boris Rose (New York ?).  There were several by a
>>> spirited young Ralph Sutton on piano.
>>>
>>> It's difficult to trace much about Boris.  The elderly collector from whom I
>>> purchased the acetates had, presumably, obtained them direct from Boris -
>>> probably in New York.
>>>
>>> I gather Boris has died.  What else do we know please,
>>>
>>> RB
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>