[78-L] Yeast Foamer's March

[David Lennick]

OK to forward this to one of the Facebook 78RPM groups? A lot of non-78L 
students are over there.

dl

On 7/20/2014 11:02 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
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> Many of us know and love this record.  Kurt uses it as his theme song for
> the bidder shows.
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> What do we really know about this record?
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> All copies I have seen are white label Victor specials with gold print,
> bearing mx 64230-2 for The Yeast Foamer's March by Yeast Foamer's Orchestra,
> direction of Harry Kogan; and 64231-1 for the flip side, In the Gloaming by
> Chauncey Parsons, Yeast Foam's Magic Tenor.  Northwestern Yeast Company,
> Chicago, Illinois.  The announcer has a strong Chicago accent.
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> For starters, the mx is not in the Victor Master Book as it was not intended
> for issue on a domestic commercial record.  It falls, however, between 64087
> on April 2, 1931 and 64301, six months EARLIER on October 7, 1930.  Most of
> the 64000, and 64100 and 64200 are all missing, including the Foamers.  Any
> explanation where those blocks may have been allocated?  That's nearly 300
> missing matrices.
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> Whenever it was made, it post-dates the current EDVR status, but Chauncey
> Parsons shows up on a pair of tests made in 1926.  Neither the band nor
> Harry Kogan show up on EDVR, but Harry and Chauncey namesakes show up on
> facebook.  Northwestern Yeast recipe books seem to show up pretty regularly,
> but I have not scoped out any histories indicating a date of demise or
> anything else.
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> Does anybody know the story behind this record?  It's obviously and
> advertising promotion, but has anybody seen an original sleeve or mailer
> which may give us some clues?
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> Rodger
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> For best results use Victor Needles
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