[78-L] Stay Up Stan, The All Night Record Man

[Kristjan Saag]

"Stay Up Stan" was, as most of US list members probably know, legendary 
radio dj Stan Shaw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman%27s_Matinee

Another "record man", mentioned in songs of that time, was "Symphony 
Sid", referred to by Louis Jordan in his "After School Swing Session" 
from 1940:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Sid

Kristjan


On 2020-05-15 23:00, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
> This record mentioned last month... I learned about Charlie Barnet 
> through his Decca recording of Skyliner. It was used as theme in a 
> radio program I listened to when a child of ten, 1973... The very 
> first program I found devoted to 78s. It was great. I used to listen 
> in a radio cassette with a fresh tape to copy the program. I still 
> keep some two dozen cassettes of it. They used to be thematic, and 
> each Sunday morning they played recordings on a theme from the early 
> twenties Up to the fifties. Great. Many years later I bought a Spanish 
> Decca pressing of that record. By those years I also bought a 5 lp set 
> of a jazz collection very nice, That's Jazz,  by Everest, issued in 
> Spain by Discophon,  which had Cherokee, by Barnet. I feel in love 
> with that! By then I still didn't collect 78s... By then I also 
> acquired RCA Records – PL-12086 by bing Crosby,  full of good bing 
> records of 1928—1931on one side, and another lot of 1956 recordings 
> with Bob Scobey on the other side. Marvelous. Done years later I 
> started collecting 78s, but it took me years to find the original 
> Victor records of bing. Then I find the original Cherokee of 1939, and 
> the Redskin Rhumba,  and Stay up Stan...  All marvels of Barnet. The 
> three songs seen to me a continuation of Cherokee, the original idea 
> by Barnet. Enviado desde Outlook Mobile 
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