[78-L] Farnon, was Re: Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac

[David Lennick]

"I'll Never Smile Again" exists by Percy Faith, only because Ruth Lowe had an 
aircheck done of it. A copy was given to Tommy Dorsey, and her son has another. 
A photo of the label in a Toronto Star article is the closest I've managed to 
get to it, and I'm sure the CBC has nothing.

dl

On 5/7/2011 5:11 PM, Alan Bunting wrote:
> I have never come across any Percy Faith recordings from his CBC days and, like David,
> doubt if any have survived.
>
> I would be very happy if anyone can prove me wrong!
>
> Alan Bunting
>
> --- On Sat, 7/5/11, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>
> I have three short 1942 programs where Farnon leads the ensemble, speaks a bit,
> plays piano on one selection and probably plays trumpet, along with Al and Bob
> Harvey and Bert Pearl..sort of a poor man's Happy Gang. As for anything from
> the CBC with Percy Faith, Alan Bunting would know if any of it exists, which I
> doubt. The Corp almost never airchecked variety and pop music programs in the
> 30s and melted down a lot of aluminum discs during the war.
>
> dl
>>>
>>> On 5/7/2011 6:29 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
>>>>  And since I'm asking, is there anything still existing from the
>>>> Percy Faith era with Farnon in the trumpet section of the orchestra?
>>>>