[78-L] Walter Winchell

[Steven]

From: David Lennick
> Savoy also had two early King Cole sides which it acquired from Varsity 
> which
acquired them from Ammor.
>
The provenance of those KC3 sides is hopelessly complicated...! Cole, living
on the west coast, seems to have cut them for the little-known (and 
failing?!)
Ammor label (Californian!).When Cole's Decca sides became "hits," any
number of labels reissued his pre-WWII sides (including a number of
transcription sides?!).

This was the VERY tail end of an era when labels signed artists to 
"exclusive"
contracts whenever possible. Many well-known artists chose to continue as
independents...earning a fixed (and often low!) sum per issued recording!

Steven C. Barr