[78-L] Shirley Temple Dies at 85

[David Lewis]

> Shirley never made 78s, did she?She did, and she didn't. 20th Century Fox had a semi-private label used for radio promos and as a perk for employees, pressingdiscs in small runs of audio from their films, and Shirley did appear on those records. 78 era pirates did a brisk trade in her records,culled from film soundtracks, as the idea of recording her seems to have escaped the commercial recording industry save "Bambi"that Mr. Lennick mentioned. Some information about the semi-private label appears in the piece that David Lennick and I did forthe ARSC Journal a few issues back on 20th Century Fox' various labels.
When Fox finally established a division within their music department to license out audio from their film productions they leasedher tracks to labels like Harmony, and these "re-issues" did very well. However, after Fox founded its own record label in 1958, theyfinally released her music on disc on an album called "Shirley Temple's Hits" in 1959, Fox 3006. It had a nice, current shot of an adult Shirley Temple on the cover, and for some reason, it's kind of scarce. More common is "Remember Shirley," a 2-disc dossierof probably everything she recorded at Fox studios issued in 1973. The Harmony album, though, is the most common of all -- onceagain, Eli wins. 
Uncle Dave Lewis
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