[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

[David Lennick]

But you did change the subject..why? Start a new thread! There's no point 
sending a message about Tony Pastor as part of a series about Ukrainian 
Canadian records.

dl

On 12/3/2010 12:09 AM, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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