[78-L] Mae Questel

[David Lennick]

Mae's records are so common that it took me about twenty years to collect all 
the Deccas, and there are very few I've seen more than once. Only one was 
issued in Canada (You'd Be Surprised/Oh Gee Oh Gosh).

dl

On 7/1/2012 10:29 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>
> On 7/1/2012 8:19 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> Randy Watts wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> From: Mark Bardenwerper<citrogsa at charter.net>
>>> 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.
>> It is very, very, very, very, very, very, very far fetched that this
>> record sold more than 20,000 copies let alone 2 million.  NOTHING in the
>> 1930s sold anywhere near that, even HUGE hits.  This is not a common
>> record.  How many copies have you ever seen??  I've never seen one.  But
>> I've seen dozens of Amapola.
>
> I have read it in several places as being more like a million, which is
> still quite a few.
> Think though how many of these were bought and just chewed up. It wasn't
> a record that was played once and slipped into the back of the cabinet.
> As a kid I would have played it to death, like I did Dark Side Of The
> Moon or Sergeant Pepper's.
> http://www.amazon.com/Good-Ship-Lollipop-Bright-Sawdust/dp/B0042KPP6I
> Find one in good shape if you can.
>>
>>
>>> Even the big boys were suffering. Look at the demise of Brunswick,
>>> which was swallowed by ARC (Decca).    Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
>> ARC was not Decca.  The mergers were rather complicated, but Brunswick
>> was doing relatively well in the mid to late 30s as the full price pop
>> label of ARC before ARC was taken over by CBS in 1938.  In the early 40s
>> Columbia turned the pre-ARC part of Brunswick over to Decca.  Decca
>> never had anything to do with ARC.
>
> Thanks for straightening me out.
>>
>>>> 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.
>> BINGO!!
>
> I forgot my troll
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