[78-L] Walter Winchell

[David Lennick]

Savoy also had two early King Cole sides which it acquired from Varsity which 
acquired them from Ammor.

dl

On 11/8/2010 10:45 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> Probably the first Savoy release after its early black label 100 series is Savoy 500,
> the start of the main jazz/R&B series, with Henderson's Crown recording of
> Sugar Foot Stomp, taken from Varsity.
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
>>>> Crown may or may not be an orphan label, but Savoy (and its successors,
> currently owned by Denon I think) claimed to own it by virtue of "owning" the
> rights to Varsity masters which included many originals from Crown. Columbia
> had no direct right of succession to it but could have tried to license a track
> or just used it and made a "best effort" to determine the owner.
>
> Columbia always owned Harmony and Velvet-Tone, and acquired OKeh in 1926.
>
> dl
>
> On 11/8/2010 8:46 PM, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
>> Was Crown one of those labels swallowed up by Columbia?
> <<<
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