[78-L] FW: [ARSCLIST] Max Morath - early recordings

[Thomas Stern]

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Thanks David and Don.

To clarify:
MUSIC FOR MOOCHERS, GOLD DIGGERS AND CATTLE RUSTLERS was compiled from the
first albums Max cut on GOLD CAMP for release on AL LEVITT's SAN FRANCISCO
label - Levitt died, and SF was taken over by BARBARY COAST.  The SF albums
were re-released on TALKING MACHINE and BARBARY COAST labels.
Max wrote he thought this album had some added sound effects, and there may
have been some tracks cut for the album (i.e. NOT from the GOLD CAMP
albums).

I have NOT seen a version on the SAN FRANCISCO label, only on TALKING
MACHINE and BARBARY COAST, though it gets referred to as San Francisco.  The
Talking Machine release was reviewed in BILLBOARD in 1957, and the BARBARY
COAST has a 1959 or 1960 date.  The Barbary Coast issue has either an SLP or
BC catalog prefix, and the jacket had some minor revisions.  I would like to
know if anyone knows that it was issued on the San Francisco label.

Best wishes, Thomas.



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I have this album (and most of all of his LPs), Music For Moochers, Gold
Diggers and Cattle Rustlers" introducing Max Morath at the mighty Gold Bar
Piano, Talking Machine Record TM-4 (San Francisco Records?), copyright 1957.

 Max told me he made this record when he was playing piano at Cripple Creek,
CO.  My wife and I saw him numerous times up through the '80s, and enjoyed
an after-show snack with him joined by our three children at a restaurant in
Conneaute on the Lake, Ohio.  A very nice gentleman whom I  first met in
Denver, around the time of his first TOTC LP for Epic.  (Turn  of the
Century).
 
Don Chichester
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/2/2016 5:03:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
sternth at ATTGLOBAL.NET writes:

Does  anyone have the compilation "Moochers, Gold Diggers and Cattle
Rustlers" on  the SAN FRANCISCO label ???

In the liner notes to the first album,  Sprague states that Max Morath was
making records in Texas - can anyone  shed light on this ???