[78-L] Glenn Miller - why so late on the label?

[David Lennick]

He's on the label of the Dorsey Brothers ANNIE'S COUSIN FANNY as composer, and 
I think that's 1933.

dl

On 6/2/2013 8:41 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> He was an active sideman, e.g. with the Mound City Blue Blowers on "Hello
> Lola" and if memory serves, was in sections which included T.
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> Glenn
> Miller was older and had been around as long or longer than Benny Goodman,
> Jack Teagarden or even Bunny Berigan, but all of them got their names on the
> label of some studio sides they made long before Miller; BG in the 1920s,
> Jack in
> 1930 and even relative latecomer Berigan in 1933.  As a contractor known to
> all the producers, Miller surely had the contacts, and he had his sights set
> on leadership since he was in college, so why did it take him until 1935 to
> get his name on the label? Coincidences, or some plan of delayed
> gratification, or waiting until he felt the time was right??  Did he tell
> George T Simon?  Anybody know?
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