[78-L] Canadian SPILKA UKRAINSKOI MOLODI-SUM

Julian Vein julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
Fri Dec 3 02:39:27 PST 2010


Agreed. I am more interested in Tony Pastor than Ukrainian Canadian 
records, so I may have missed something!

      Julian Vein
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David Lennick wrote:
> 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.
>>


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