[78-L] What is the Meaning of This - The Sportsmen Quartet
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 4 05:48:54 PDT 2012
They're also on the Jack Benny "Top Ten" 78RPM album but again, not identified
except as "They sound like the Quartet on my radio show" or words to that effect.
dl
On 7/4/2012 12:58 AM, David Lewis wrote:
>
> Thank you David. Decca makes sense; my notes -- random stuff from the web; they have no bio or anything --
>
> "According [to] Bill Days, who passed away on May 6, 2002 at 91, Mahlon Merrick was the one who got them into the [Benny] show.
> He [Merrick] had worked on some recordings with them and suggested to Jack [Benny] that they be hired."
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> They became regulars on the Benny show in 1946, but had appeared on it as early as 1942. "They were also featured on The Judy Canova show,
> Eddie Cantor show, Sealtest Village Store, Ginny Simms show, Blue Ribbon Town with Groucho Marx, Phil Harris/Alice Faye show among others."
>
> They also apparently sang on some of Charles Fuller's "The Old Fashioned Revival Hour" Sunday programs in the late 1940s. All of which is
> interesting to me.
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