[78-L] TAC Records [was Beatrice Kay]

Han Enderman jcenderman at solcon.nl
Mon Mar 18 07:33:49 PDT 2013


I have 2 label images of TAC 1-B, Michael Loring: Joe Hill.
At bottom "Musicraft GM-430", the Musicraft mx.nr.
This title is also on Keynote K 503, which says on label: From "T.A.C.".
I have no scans of the reverse on TAC/Keynote, titled "Abe Lincoln".
(see  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.smor.19380520/default.html)

Below the mx are a number and a small logo which I can't read.
On one scan the number is 317, at left of this small logo.
On the other scan it is 292, at right of the logo.
What is the meaning of these 6 o'clock numbers?

A bad scan of 2-A/B is similar, with 317 at right, and unreadable Musicraft numbers. 
But Thomas reported GM-482 for the B.Kay side.
(GM-499 K is on Musicraft 223-A by Lead Belly, NYC 1 Apr 1939).
This may date the Kay side as early 1939 (?).
LoC says about CABARET TAC [musical show]: June Havoc, with Albert Arkus, piano: "Swing TAC" / Beatrice Kay, with Arkus, piano: "Picket Line Priscilla" (TAC Records 2).
Also Tony Kraber: "Old Paint" (Keynote K-504).
An overview is at:
http://www.keepingscore.x10.mx/cabarettac.html

All TAC labels state "Series A".
Were there other series and were there more than 2 issues in series A?

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

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
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The TAC disc was also on Keynote.
dl
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