[78-L] Freddy Martin redux

[David Lennick]

Seems to me it was always Freddy on Bluebird and Victor and later on Capitol 
and Decca.

dl

On 12/13/2010 11:26 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> It turns out that Johnson and Shirley are correct. Mr. Martin's first
> name was spelled Freddy.
> Bernard Shirley writes that he has a copy of a letter from F. Martin  to
> John R. T. Davies in 1969 in which it says,
> "I am Freddy and have always been Freddy. Brunswick couldn't spell my
> name and soon everybody else got it wrong. When signing I spell it
> correctly, but as all my Brunswick checks were made out to Freddie even
> my bank can't get it right. You call me Freddie and I'll insist on
> calling you Jim."
> The UK Decca files use Freddy, correctly.
> Mal
> __________________