[78-L] The Virginians

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The demand for Whiteman records really overwhelmed Victor but they couldn't just turn the whole catalog over to him. The Victor A&R staff had been looking for something very like PW and they were eager to exploit it once they hit paydirt. They organized a number of house bands made up of Paul Whitebread musicians but each targeting a slightly different market segment. The Troubadours, The Serenaders, The Manhattan Merrymakers, The Virginians, Hugo Frey's Orchestra, and the Great White Way Orchestra were all basically the same outfit catering to diffrent slices of the Whiteman audience. I do not know how much influence Pops himself had on them at this early stage in his career but I would assume these were all tunes in what must have been an exploding book of arrangements. 

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From: Rodger Holtin [mailto:rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid]
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The VirginiansWhat do we know about this band that made a batch of Victor records in theearly 1920s?I didn't realize until looking through Rust's Jazz Records that thepersonnel was reflective of the Whiteman band of the day, but these recordssound nothing like Whiteman records of the day.Was this an acknowledged band-within-the-band kind of an arrangement likeDorsey's Clambake Seven or something similar, or was the strictly studiofodder and a chance to make a few bucks?Do we know who suggested this band to Victor? How hands-on was Whitemanwith this band? Rodger For best results use Victor Needles _______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l