[78-L] Whther Manor?

[David Lewis]

Dr. Diehl wrote:

The Coleman Brothers are mentioned in "Regis Label starts Releasing Platters" Billboard Mar 27, 1943 pg 25.
Milky White Way on Regis was reviewed in Billboard Jan 29, 1944 pg 60
Manor album SP1 'Spirituals Of The Old South' was advertised in Billboard Feb 9, 1946 pg 24.
 DJD
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Thanks David! Not only are the earliest dates possible the right ones, "Milky White Way" is mentioned even in the very first article cited. Irving Berman's quote that "The orders I have on hand now will take six weeks to fill" doesn't sound like failure to me; moreover, I had no idea that Regis itself was based in Newark, at least at first; always thought of Manor as a Manhattan-based label. Certainly "Milky White Way" had plenty of time to establish itself before The Trumpeteers covered it; if anything, a 1948 re-release would serve to call attention to the original.

That's just plain bad research, Dave; while I don't doubt that The Coleman Brothers may have had reason to complain about their association with Irving Berman, to invent a reason based on faulty discographical data isn't good medicine. 

By the way, I updated the Apollo Records article on Wikipedia yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Records_(1944)
I just got sick of the bad, inaccurate stub that was sitting there.

Uncle Dave Lewis
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