[78-L] Yeast Foamer's March

[Rodger Holtin]

Have at it.

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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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