[78-L] Archive - Collector - do you have Apollo 1067 ??

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Sep 13 07:02:45 PDT 2011


I'm seeing a few Billboard listings showing it as 1067. Too bad it didn't 
chart, or Whitburn would have been another source. Are we sure it isn't the 
Connee Boswell entry that's incorrect?

I know I have ONE Gordon MacRae Apollo but would have to look through a few 
thousand discs to find it.

dl

On 9/13/2011 9:46 AM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>
> Repeating this request - there must be a copy somewhere....
>
> In 78discography Apollo 1067 is listed as:
>    1067 Connee Boswell w. Jerry Jerome Old Devil Moon - - - 4/24/1947 -
>    1067 Connee Boswell w. Jerry Jerome I Wanna Be Loved - - - 4/24/1947 -
>
> [78discography lists 1045 as McRae rather than MacRae]
>
> however a Billboard review  July 12, 1947 lists it as a Gordon MacRae recording (with Jerry Jerome Orch)
>
> Can someone provide label scans, or label text for an actual copy of 1067 ?
>
> Perhaps it is an error scanning billboard, but it shows up in multiple places.
>
> Given the poor review, and the move to Capitol (canceling the Apollo contract), perhaps Apollo withdrew
> the disc and reused the number ???
>
> Any other hypotheses ???
>
> THANK YOU.
> Best wishes, Thomas.


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