[78-L] Aaron Sachs (was Whither Manor?)

[Dan Van Landingham]

Who was Irving Berman?I used to have a few Manor 78s in my collection(Savannah 
Churchill,one of the Morales's plus Dizzy via Columbia-"Good Bait","I Can't Get 
St-
arted")but I know nothing of the history of the label itself.I am familiar with 
Ike and Bess
Berman who,unless I'm mistaken,owned Apollo.I haven't heard of Aaron Sachs in 
years.He
was replaced by Tony Scott in Buddy Rich's band in the '40s.




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From: David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
To: 78-l <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Thu, July 7, 2011 3:25:11 PM
Subject: [78-L] Aaron Sachs (was Whither Manor?)


Cary,

Thanks for tipping in about Aaron Sachs and adding that Terry Gibbs was involved 
in that session. I'm working on
the Manor Wiki as well as it is especially bad.

Irving Berman was a piece of work; I've been going through the various Billboard 
articles that mention him and other
sources. One of the Dixie Hummingbirds told Jerry Zolten that Berman wouldn't 
pay them in cash, just in records, which
they sold at their appearances. They looked at it as being something better than 
nothing at all and on the way to a real
recording contract, which they did eventually get. Berman sued RCA Victor, and 
won, in order to pay off his debt to the Harry
Fox Agency. However, he bought a bunch of Disc masters from Moe Asch, put out 
some of the JATP stuff on one of his
labels and then sued Mercury. Wrong idea; it put him out of business.

Uncle Dave Lewis
uncledavelewis at hotmail.com                         
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