[78-L] Jerry Colonna w/Rhythm Wreckers

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
> I believe that to be true as there was a brief period where Vocalion was 
> being
phased out for a new OKeh label.There are Vocalions and OKehs that share the 
same catalogue
numbers.If if remember correctly,Vocalion was phased out completely by 
Columbia by the summer
of 1940.I had some OKehs by Bob Wills such as his 1938 recording of "San 
Antonio Rose"
which I had on OKeh.I also had an Adrian Rollini Vocalion of "In My 
Solitude" which was
recorded on 7 May 1940 and issued on Vocalion.As I recall,the Brunswick and 
Vocalion trademarks
were sold to Decca by Columbia in 1941.
>
In 1940, ARC surrendered their rights to the Brunswick name by NOT issuing 
the requisite
number of thus-named records. As a result, ARC had to replace the Vocalion 
name with
Okeh (I own a copy of the promo record issued to dealers to that effec) 
effective 7/1/40!
ARC used the same numeric sequence for both of the two labels...even 
including the
initial zero used on non-popular issues...!

Steven C. Barr