[78-L] Identity of female singer?

[David Lennick]

Follow up. Nat Shilkret wrote about the Gershwin and Herbert albums in his 
posthumous autobiography "60 Years in the Music Business". In 1938-39 he wanted 
to produce albums devoted to single composers, as he'd done in the 20s, and 
proposed a budget of $20,000 for eight albums. Victor countered with an offer 
to have Shilkret do the music as two Magic Key radio broadcasts and pay him 
$1000 per album and a nice little royalty of 10% of the retail price of each 
album (he eventually made $250,000 by the way). The first album was a Gershwin 
Memorial, with a Victor Herbert set scheduled next. There was minimal rehearsal 
time and no chance to listen to playbacks to correct balance, so what went over 
the air was what would be recorded. Eight minutes before the end of the 
Gershwin broadcast, two men (an oboist and a harpist) were removed because the 
contractor had forgotten they'd be needed for a Toscanini rehearsal. Shilkret 
was pretty put out over this and for the second album he put together his own 
orchestra and insisted on doing the Magic Key broadcast and then the recording 
session as a separate entity an hour later. And that's where Ann Jamison, Jan 
Peerce and company enter the story.

dl

On 2/12/2011 10:21 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> Here she is with Jan Peerce on RCA's Magic Key:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etuDFO2Hjbs&feature=related
>
> dl
>
> On 2/12/2011 9:28 AM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>> On 2/12/2011 8:17, David Lennick wrote:
>>> I find NO online references to her, but she was definitely on radio and records
>>> in the 30s, including the Victor Herbert album with Jan Peerce and
>>> Thomas L. Thomas.
>>>
>>> Pretty lady.
>>>
>>> dl
>> The voice, but not the looks, of Jeannette MacDonald. Maybe better.
>> Pity what never made the divide between stage and radio/record,
>> radio/record and film, predigital and modern times. Too many gaps to
>> jump. What we hear on record and see on film is a tiny fragment of the
>> tip of the iceburg that was entertainment in the 20th century.
>>