[78-L] Mae Questel

[Randy Watts]

She had an album on Columbia's Harmony subsidiary in 1958 titled ON THE GOOD SHIP LOLLIPOP: FAVORITE SONGS FROM CHILDREN'S FILMS. I haven't heard it in ages, but as I recall they were new recordings.
 
Speaking of Questel, a friend once told me about running across a 1970s interview with her while he was looking for something else in microfilmed newspapers. He said the interview was largely concerned with her voice-over work in animated cartoons, but at one point he said she did make the claim that her record of "On the Good Ship Lollipop" sold over a million copies and "saved Decca." I was not aware that her record sold extraordinarily well or that Decca was in need of salvation at the time. Since we're talking about her, it's a good time to ask, does anybody have any idea if there's any truth in what she said, or was she suffering from the kind of career-enhancing "False Memory Syndrome" that sometimes plagues aging performers.
 
Randy 


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From: Darrell Lehman <nickjay49 at gmail.com>
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com 
Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 2:58 PM
Subject: [78-L] Mae Questel

Anybody know off-hand if she recorded for anybody other than Decca?

thanks, DL etc