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

[David Lennick]

Dammit..now "Guillotine Days" is running through my head and I don't think I've 
heard that in close to 50 years.

dl

On 3/17/2013 10:04 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:41 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> 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.
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