[78-L] Salvation and record plug

[David Lennick]

Good one! Missed this message earlier for some reason. And Harmony was killed 
off pretty quickly so I wonder if they redid that one or had an alternate..they 
might have been using tape by this time, if only as a backup.

dl

On 11/24/2013 8:02 AM, jim brannen wrote:
> Pearl Bailey&  Hot Lips Pages 1949 version of 'Baby, it's cold outside. Hot lips asks Pearl to put on some records and she's says "You mean some Harmony records" That session was released on Columbia's revived Harmony label. I think it was priced to compete with the new cheaper RCA Bluebird&  Decca's Coral labels.
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> On Sunday, November 24, 2013 1:46 AM, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>  wrote:
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>   I know this isn't what you're looking for but in "Get out those Old Records" they sing about "the old wind-up Victrola".
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> On Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:41:17 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> Rev. J. M. Gates on OKeh 8508 "Will The Coffin Be Your Santa Claus?" advises
>> one and all not to plan on buying a player piano but to get a phonograph and an
>> OKeh record of "Amazing Grace". Anyone ever run across a record that isn't a
>> promo or demo where the performer plugs the label?
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>> (I have now heard Rev. Gates do Amazing Grace about 17 times so I think I've
>> racked up enough salvation for a while.)
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>> dl