[78-L] Beatrice Kay was PIP Records (LP) NOT Pickwick- info wanted

[Michael Biel]

The producer of Smash Flops and Sing A Song of Sickness was (...pause
for dramatic effect....)  OLIVER BERLINER.  Yes THE Oliver Berliner.  He
might be able to answer some of these questions.  I forget if he was
still involved in the Electric Lemon reissue but he might have been.  I
also have those two Bea Kay mono/stereo alternate label discs Lennick
mentioned.


Why do all of us have these same weird records???

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  

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Subject: Re: [78-L] Beatrice Kay was PIP Records (LP) NOT Pickwick-
info wanted
From: "Thomas Stern" <sternth at attglobal.net>
Date: Sun, March 17, 2013 9:48 pm
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>


The BSNPUBS website has details of the TOPS/GOLDEN TONE/MAYFAIR albums:
http://www.bsnpubs.com/pri/goldentone.html see 9655

Beatrice Kay's first issued recording - one track issued by TAC c.1938,
reissued by THEME.
TAC Records 2
THEME 101-A
 GM 482 PICKET-LINE PRISCILLA (Saul Aarons, Mike Stratton)
 Beatrice Kay, vocal
 Albert Arkus, piano

After her success on radio and many Columbia releases
 (C-14, C-36, C-115, CL 6025, CL 868, HL 7253)
Kay recorded for RCA in 1952
 (P335, LPM 3000),

followed by a string of small label releases:

TOPS L1666 (1959)/9655
MAYFAIR 9655S
GOLDEN TONE 9655S
GOLDEN TONE C4039

CHARLIE PARKER Records PLP 812 Having Aa Party (1962)
LAFF A-108 (reissue -date??)

PIP PLP 1904 Sings Happy Hits by Al Sherman (date??)
Electric Lemon PLP 1910 (reissue 1973)

Best wishes, Thomas.


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Subject: Re: [78-L] PIP Records (LP) NOT Pickwick- info wanted


Well remembered, Smash Flops and Sing A Song of Sickness, both featuring
"The
Characters". I have Electric Lemon PLP 1910 but no earlier version of
it.
(Credits the Johnny Guarnieri Quartet, has 1973 copyright date etc.)
Note that
all the songs are composed by Al Sherman, father of the feuding Disney
songwriters.

On an unrelated matter, I have another Beatrice Kay album, with two
different
titles and two different covers, on the same label.
GOLDEN TONE C4039: GAY 90S WITH BEATRICE KAY (mono, has liner notes,
lists
titles on front and back)
GOLDEN TONE 9655S: BEATRICE KAY SINGS GAY 90S (stereo, lists only other
albums
on the reverse, doesn't list titles anywhere)

dl

On 3/16/2013 9:26 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> This is what I know on the subject:
> While listing BEATRICE KAY recordings, I find an album issued by "PIP RECORDS", a division
> of the BROOKLEDGE CORP., 1350 North Highland Ave., Hollywood, Calif.
> Based on information in BILLBOARD, it appears PIP was founded circa 1960. There are adverts
> for the company (130 Highland Avenue, Hollywood) in Billboard Sept 26 through Dec 12 1960.
> They advertise PLP 1900 SMASH FLOPS, and PLP 1901 SING A SONG OF SICKNESS.
> In NOV 5, 1966 Billboard lists PIP 1906 SHERMAN& LARSEN'S Smash Flops and
> PIP 1907 SPENCER QUINN My Pick is Quick.
> The next mention which I believe is related to these recordings is May 8, 1971, listing the
> ELECTRIC LEMON label. PLP 1906 New Society Band Shove It in Your Ear!.
> Billboard Mar 24, 1973 has short article about Los Angeles based Electric Lemon Records "the year old label".... President
> Milt Larsen. Vice President Verne Langdon. Distributed by Rare Records, Glendale. The New Society Band album is noted, as
well
> as "The Phantom of the Organ".
> Larson and Langdon produced "An Evening with Boris Karloff& His Friends" for Decca in 1968.
> On VERNE LANGDON's website, Electric Lemon Record Co. is listed as "a Brookledge Music Investment", which connects back to
the
> Beatrice Kay album issued by PIP. Verne is a nephew
> of Red Nichols. Vernon Loring Langdon (1941-2011).
> Electric Lemon issued a Beatrice Kay album PLP 1910, track list nearly the same as the PIP
> album, and listing the same musicians, studio etc. Address 7001 Franklin Ave., Hollywood.
> Can anyone fill in details about PIP records, and any catalog numbers for PIP and/or
> ELECTRIC LEMON ? Am I correct that these are the same company - or successor. Anyone know
> how and/or why the change ??
> NOTE: This is ** NOT ** the PIP records which was a subsidiary of PICKWICK INTERNATIONAL. That label was started as a full
> price subsidiary of Pickwick early 1968 with release of
> "CAB CALLOWAY '68."
> Thanks!
> Best wishes, Thomas.