[78-L] pasteover label~Broadway Malady

[Taylor Bowie]

It is amazing...the smell of desperation,  as one company about to go 
tits-up steals something from another company in the same doomed position.

I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where the Broadway 
"execs" decided to pull this little stunt.     I know a lot of those Midwest 
bands they recorded worked cheap (have read about the Sig Heller sessions, 
thanks to some info from Doug).   But I guess they figured that there was no 
reason to pay a band fifty bucks to record the song if they could get away 
with rerecording the HOW for fifteen cents!

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] pasteover label~Broadway Malady


> Fascinating! Rust lists this. "Instrumentation and personnel unknown, 
> Grafton
> Wis, c. March 1932". Broadway 1514, mx L-1637-3 (meaning the first 2 takes 
> were
> screwups in the dubbing?).
>
> dl
>
> On 1/1/2011 3:13 PM, DRJAZZ78 at aol.com wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>      The name is Dave Meehan AHO.
>>
>> Doug
> On 1/1/2011 3:04 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of cheapie,  the sleaziest thing I've encountered among the 
>> cheap
>> labels is the Broadway dance band version of "Let's Have Another Cup of
>> Coffee."  I know Broadway was in bad shape by '32...but did they really 
>> have
>> to DUB the Hit of the Week version and then issue it as their own? 
>> Pretty
>> bad.   Can't recall the pseudonym Broadway used...perhaps someone else on
>> the list knows it.
>>
>> What is really pathetic is that the dubbed Hit of the Week still sounded
>> better than a lot of the records actually recorded by Broadway!
>>
>>
>> Taylor
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