[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

[Dan Van Landingham]

Not to change the subject,but on a Melodie Jazz Classics" CD I have of the 1940 
Georgie Auld
Orchestra,the personnel lists Tony Pastor as being one of the section tenor 
players and trumpet-
er John Best as in the band.This was the Artie Shaw band sans Artie Shaw as you 
know and this
was the band that recorded for Obie's Varsity label in January and February of 
1940.Pastor got
a contract at RCA recording with his own band on Bluebird and John Best,whom I 
knew,was f-
irmly ensconced in Glenn Miller's band then.He was out of the band when Shaw cut 
"Oh,Lady Be
Good" on 27 Aug 1939.Harry Geller was his replacement.Some enlightenment on the 
personnel
would be appreciated.In late 1935,Geller happened to have the unfortunate 
happenstance of re-
placing Bunny Berigan in Goodman's band.




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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 8:45:30 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

On 12/2/2010 8:20 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> On 12/2/2010 6:16 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Arka was a big label for Ukrainian records in Canada. Very popular in
>>>> the
>>>> prairie provinces. Odd that RCA's T- masters don't indicate 33 or 78,
>>>> just
>>>> coarse groove. There are other prefixes including M (Montreal), PR
>>>> (Private
>>>> Recording) and S (used on a lot of 50s LPs, not sure what its
>>>> significance
>>>> is).
>>>>>
>>> In fact, Oshawa had a flourishing Ukranian minority (its best-known
>>> landmark
>>> is
>>> an onion-domed church adjoining the 401!) who came to work in its then-
>>> flourishing automobile industry after WWI. There was also a Ukranian
>>> record
>>> label pressed and sold here; Horst W. gave me some examples thereof. My
>>> computer data is no longer available AFAIK...!
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>
>>
>> Could have been by the Matys Brothers (of "Who Stole the Keeshka" fame) on
>> ALTO. I have one 78 by them with a soloist (Oshawa native) whose name
>> escapes
>> me at the moment.
>>
> Dunno...you'd have to ask Horst, who DOESN'T communicate by e-mail...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr

Mike Kupnycki was the guy, with the Matys Brothers, on the Alto label. Alto was 
an Oshawa music store in the 50s (it was still around in the 70s but I'm pretty 
sure it's gone now).

dl

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