[78-L] Willie Howard on Gala, was Re: Gala: different label styles, is it the same company?

[Philip Fukuda]

Here is the information of the circa 1942 Willie Howard Gala album. It was Gala album 1 entitled "Willie Howard in an album of Comedy and Songs." Sides are: 

1000A: French Taught in a Hurry, part 1 (115A)
1000B: French Taught in a Hurry, part 2 (116-1B)

1001A: Tyrone Shapiro (119-1A)
1001B: Moscow Art Players (117A)

1002A: Comes the Revolution! (118-2A)
1002B: Jessel, Jolson and Cantor (imitations) (120B)

By the way, Belle Baker is on Gala album 3.

Philip

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> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:43:20 -0500
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> On 11/15/2012 10:23 PM, David Lewis wrote:
> >
> > All of the Dwight Fiske Galas, as far as I've been able
> to tell, were sourced from Fiskana records of the early
> 1930s. Oddly, the originalsdon't sound a great deal better
> than the Gala dubs in a lot of cases. Greg Fernandez has a
> 10" Dwight Fiske LP on Gala. This was certainly minted by
> Jubilee, showing that they used the Gala name afterthey
> acquired the company, at least for a time.
> >
> > Uncle Dave Lewis
> > uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
>         
> 
> 
> 
> A lot of Fiskanas were dubbed onto Gala and have the same
> numbers (i.e. "099" 
> is derived from Fiskana 36099) but there were a lot of newer
> recordings on Gala 
> as well as remakes of the older titles. I have two Fiske
> lps..Gala 100, which 
> might be a Jubilee product and which lists 3 other albums on
> the back cover as 
> well as 4 by Charley Drew, 2 by Nan Blakstone and one by
> Willie Howard (not one 
> of which I've ever run across in my life), and Monarch 206
> which is likely new 
> material.
> 
(snipped Dwight Fiske discography)