[78-L] Willie Howard on Gala

[David Lennick]

Interesting..I've certainly never run across that sax album. I suspect that 
Gala got by on those 3 albums and the Turf Derby/Boat Race game till it began 
to reissue the Dwight Fiskes, because the party records by Charley Drew and Nan 
and Spivy et al are certainly postwar.

dl

On 11/19/2012 5:49 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> Gala 1000-1002 are Willie Howard 115-120 (Album 1);
> Gala 1006-1008 are Belle Baker 103-108 (Album 3).
> Gala 1003-1005 are Album 2.
> In the past the Nan Blakstone Album was mentioned as 2 (from spine),
> but there was also an unnumbered Blakstone album (with same cover)
> (and pres. the 2 refered to Blakstone vol.2).
>
> I have images of 1003-A&  1004-A/B and their album cover.
> These state ALBUM 2 (6 sides) on labels, with sides 1/3/4 mentioned,
> in the same style as on the records of albums 1&  3.
> These must be mxs 109-114.
> The allbum and the 3 available labels are credited to:
> Frank Chase Saxophone Choir - described as Saxophone Sextet on labels.
> There is no album title; only the band credit, and no nr on front.
> 1003-A, 114-2 is: Speak To Me Of Love;
> 1004-A, 109-1 is: Chopin Prelude Opus 28 No. 4;
> 1004-B, 112-1 is: (same): Rachmaninoff Prelude In C Sharp Minor.
> The songs are listed on the cover in sequence, it seems, and thus:
> 1003-B Deep River
> 1005-A Dark Eyes
> 1005-B Song Of The Volga Boatmen.
> Does anyone have details of the other mx.nrs?
>
> The records of the Albums 1-3 exist with diff. label types.
> Earliest seems to be a "gothic" label, with the word Gala in capitals
> under a curtain (ARLIE Gala I).
>
> I have label scans of Blakstone's:
> 1013-B-3, 1015(?)-B, 1016-B, 1020-A/B, 1021-A/B.
> These use 3 diff. label variants of the Gala script label (ARLIE Gala II).
>
> The inside of a Spivy album lists both separate Gala issues and some albums,
> incl. Album # 70 Sheila Barrett.
> 1020/21 are listed as individual Blakstone records.
> The Blakstone Album is unnumbered, containing 6 titels, including those
> on 1013-B, 1015(?)-B&  1016-B, and thus these numbers might be mx.nrs instead of
> release numbers. What are the numbers of these 6 titels?
> 1013-B-3 "___" Reared Its Ugly Head;
> 1016-B Who Brought Me Home.
>
> han enderman
> ===
>>>> Thanks..I knew there was something like that in the album liner but my copy is
> in storage. And that info confused me as well. No doubt the album was reprinted
> once or twice. And who are Messrs Danziger who are credited as producers on
> both the Willie Howard and Belle Baker albums? I assumed they were Gala
> Records, but Ben Lane has been named as the label's owner.
>
> The Belle Baker matrix numbers are nos. 103/108, so there are 8 more masters
> between that set and Willie Howard's. All are conducted by Harley Dainger, a
> name I've seen only on this label. And the Willie Howard album is quite
> possibly the worst recorded and the worst pressed of any major Broadway star.
> Too bad, because the material is very funny, and the Jessel-Jolson-Cantor
> sketch is brilliant.
>
> (Comes the revolution YOU'LL EAT strawberries and cream!)
>
> dl
>
> On 11/18/2012 3:32 PM, Philip Fukuda wrote:
>> A 1939 or 1940 recording date makes more sense if the Belle Bakers were recorded then too. I thought it was '42 since the inside cover of the album says Willie Howard is now the star of the Broadway hit "1942 Priorities."
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>
>>> Message: 12
>>> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:25:13 -0500
>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Willie Howard on Gala, was Re: Gala:
>>> different
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>>> VERY useful information. Rust doesn't list these sides at
>>> all, but under Belle
>>> Baker he lists her 6 Gala sides as "c. 1940".
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 11/18/2012 11:17 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>>>> There was an earlier discussion of Gala on this forum,
>>> where Thomas informed us:
>>>>
>>>> Just found a review of the GALA album (#1) in the NY
>>> Times,
>>>> this would put the recording into 1939 at the
>>> latest...
>>>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>>>
>>>> NYT January 14, 1940
>>>> Comedy and Songs by Willie Howard. (Gala Records, six
>>> ten-inch sides, $2.75)
>>>> One of the many new recording outfits waxes Professor
>>> Howard in some of his
>>>> famous bits "French Taught in a Hurry," "Tyrone
>>> Shapiro," "Impressions of the
>>>> Moscow Art Players," "Comes the Revolution," and
>>> Imitations of Jessel, Jolson,
>>>> and Cantor.  Enough said.
>>>>
>>>> han enderman
>>>> ===
>>>>>>> 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 Fukuda
>>>> ---
>>>> <snip>
>>>> <<<
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