[78-L] Mae Questel

[Mark Bardenwerper]

On 7/1/2012 6:49 PM, Randy Watts wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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She did suffer from Alzheimer's.
Seriously, it is not that far fetched. At a time when record companies 
were foundering in droves and a good selling record was perhaps 50,000, 
a 2 million seller must have been quite a gold mine. Even the big boys 
were suffering. Look at the demise of Brunswick, which was swallowed by 
ARC (Decca).

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