[78-L] Flanagan & Whiteman

[Randy Watts]

A correction to what I posted last night. The October 1959 date for the Flanagan album in Schwann was for the stereo LP (LP-12006). The mono (LP-9053) made its Schwann debut in November 1958. Given that albums tended to show up in Schwann a month or two after their actual release dates, that jibes with the September 1958 issue date that Joe has for "They're Playing Our Song."
 
Randy
 

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Greetings from FixitLand!

Joe Salerno wrote:

> New acquisitions:
> 
> They're Playing Our Song - Ralph Flanagan and his orchestra
> Imperial LP - 12006 - no date
> 
> Paul Whiteman - The Night I Played 666 Fifth Avenue
> Grand Award G.A. 33-409
> 
> Question 1: When were these records made?
> 
> Q. 2: Is Whiteman actually involved in the music making? I see an image 
> and references to his name but nowhere does it say that he is actually 
> performing.

I have nothing on the Whiteman LP, but the Flanagan LP is the first of four less-than-memorable Imperial LPs he recorded from 1958-60. Rather than using the Glenn Miller style he was known for aping, here his small group resembles Eddy Duchin's "piano with rhythm accompaniment" sound of the early 1940s. Here's the particulars I have:

RALPH FLANAGAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
RF (p, arr); unknown ts, g, sb, d.
Hollywood, 31 March 1958.
IM-1568    All Of Me            Imperial LP-9053 (mono), LP-12006 (stereo); London HA-P2131
IM-1569    Margie                    -                -            -
IM-1570    Sail Along Silvery Moon            -                -            -
IM-1571    Up A Lazy River [sic]            -                -            -
IM-1572    Josephine                    -                -            -
IM-1573    April Love                    -                -            -

Same. Hollywood, 1 April 1958.
IM-1574    Lisbon Antigua                -                -            -
IM-1575    Secret Love                    -                -            -
IM-1576    Again                        -                -            -
IM-1577    Who's Sorry Now                -                -            -
IM-1578    It Had To Be You                -                -            -
IM-1579    Whispering                    -                -            -
IM-1580    St. Louis Blues        Imperial X5576 (45)
IM-1581    My Melancholy Baby    Imperial rejected

The labels on at least some copies (if not all) of LP-9053 read "OUR SONG ALBUM." Perhaps the stereo LP-12006 labels do too? I show release date of the LP as September 1958.

Take care,


—
Joe
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