[78-L] Musicraft Tempo label

[zimrec at juno.com]

It's been quite a while since I've even looked at the 78-L digests that have piled up in my inbox, but that doesn't mean I've been too busy to search for and acquire records.  A bit over a month ago, a friend -- who is a collector -- told me about a yard sale, a half hour drive east of my home, where there were several hundred 78s.  This was after he had purchased 30 records, including a couple Clarence Williams discs on OK electrical,  a blues on Black Swan and some others of that ilk, all in E+ condition.  Those and a box of old tubes for his old radios cost him all of $15.  After looking over about 50 of the remaining records, I had seen enough for me to determine that $70 for about 500 records was not worth bargaining for.  After sorting them at home, the lot seemed to have about 30 or 40 1920s-early 1930s, mostly hot dance or jazz, and in varying condition, about 130 Australian pressings of American jazz & swing from early 1930s through about 1940, 30 useless (to me) late 1940s or early 1950s polka records and the rest mostly common swing era items on American labels.

Between Friday & Saturday, I made the rounds of 7 estate sales.  No great quantities of records, but a decent batch of sheet music with many 1931-32 pieces included and which I'd not previously come across.  The records, however, included some unusual items, among them two copies of an unissued August 1928 Victor Special Record shellac pressing of cantor Isidore Braveman, albeit, one copy with a radial crack.  This from the home of the grandson of the cantor.

Also, from the same home was a record on the Tempo label, number 25002, for which I'd appreciate help in identifying the artists.  The grey label with maroon print reads Musicraft Records Inc, New York City around the upper periphery.  Label indicates only "Orchestra with Vocal" on both sides.  Tunes are:
mx 1596-2  Latins Know How
mx 1699-1  I'll Never Smile Again

The band sounds like a late 1930s or 1940s swing band.  1596 has a female vocal and 1699 a male vocal.  Neither is familiar to me.  On the latter side, just before the vocalist comes in, his name is announced in the fashion of the old radio remotes.  His first name is Chuck, but I can't make out his surname.  The Musicraft files that I have show only 5000 and 6000 series matrix numbers.  Can anyone help identify the band & vocalist, and the dates?

Another peculiar item is a 12-inch World Broadcasting ET - "Sugar and Spice by Superba Cravats,"  produced by Gussow, Kahn & Co., Inc. and marked Reproduce at 33-1/3 RPM.  Matrix numbers 77203 & 77205 are on label only.  There are no markings in wax.  Despite the speed indication on the label, the disc plays properly at 78 rpm.  Each side contains 3 commercial spots for Sugar and Spice neckties, a total of 6 different spots introduced by the product's jingle.  The product is unfamiliar to me and I'd be interested in knowing from when this dates.  Based on listing on esells web site, the ties date from the 1950s.

As I type this, it dawned on me that, at the sale where I got the World ET, I had seen a number of acetates with handwritten labels by a vocalist by name of Gussow or Gussau.  I assume that the Gussow, Kahn & Co referred to in previous paragraph may have been an advertising or accounting agency.  The only google links of the company are to legal cases involving contract law.  I wonder if there was a relation between the Gussow of the company and the vocalist on those acetates I left behind.

Art

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