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TOAST OF NEW YORK COLLECTIONS and SAMPLERS Updated 11/23/02
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Now here's one to make you sit up and take notice :
THE NESTOR COLLECTION From our newest member, based in Argentina! His first four discs include ADRIAN SCHUBERT AND HIS ORCHESTRA, VOLUME ONE; THE ARKANSAS TRAVELERS / MELODY SHEIKS; and, two spectacular volumes of BRUNSWICK DANCE BANDS, rare Argentine NON-VOCAL TAKES! Every band you can think of! An absolute must-have! This just in (6/02) the NESTOR COLLECTION is now up to 20 discs, with tons and tons of interesting bands: JOE CANDULLO, BILLY WYNNE, BILLY JAMES, TERRITORIAL COLLECTIONS, THE GOOFUS FIVE - AND THEIR ORCHESTRA!, LOU GOLD, SAM LANIN, NAT SHILKRET and many many more! Lots of goodies - check it out!
ENOUGH IS TOO MUCH! THE ALEX McK SERIES!
More details when you click the page obviously, but so far this series is 56 (!) discs and counting of misc 78s from 1926-1936, almost all hot dance, mostly American, but lots of British and some real surprises from Germany & France. The problem is that this series is so big it's hard to fill requests for copies. If anyone wants to help me duplicate this and distribute it to those who want it, I would surely appreciate it. Anyhow, check it out. And yes, as you can see, I also do need help with the track sheets as well. (These are all monstrously big pages and may take a long time to load... be patient.)
(Yes, this means we're up to 112 (!) Alex Discs! Hooray!)
The Light Crust Doughboys
ENOUGH IS TOO MUCH, part TWO:
THE DEMENTO "COUNTRY" SERIES!
I'll let the good doctor tell you about it himself. Welcome to
pardners! Ready for more?
Additional Demento Country Note-skis
Check it out, you all!
SPECIAL NOTE: As of 10/02, the Demento Country Project is now up to 80 discs, including over four full discs of what Demento describes as "citybilly" music by famous dance band vocalist FRANK LUTHER! The one page contains all the listings, so beware, it will take a long time to load!
A NICE BATCH OF STUFF : a whole slew of new toastings from the beloved MR. JIMBO!
here's a very long-awaited project: MUSICAL FOOTNOTES BY THE FRIENDLY FIVE! The legendary transcriptions, never before on CD!
what a great idea! SLAM STEWART - THE GIMMICK! The legendary bassist in two volumes displaying the bowing-and-humming trick that revolutionized the world of jazz.
Are you ready for this? THE HOOSIER HOT SHOTS PLAY THE JAZZ CLASSICS! Those Shots of a Hoosier nature really get "hot" here, folks!
Jimbo Presents STRATTON STREET STRUT The subject is hot British jazz of the 1930s - mostly small bands, including those great dates produced by Leonard Feather (Leonard Feather & Ye Olde English Swynge Band) and featuring such virtuosos as Danny Polo and George Chisolm! A two CD retrospective. Ripping good fun!
A new gem from HUTCH HUTCHINSON THE VITAPHONE COLLECTION! Four (!) count 'em discs of rare and wonderful material from early sound films, shorts and features, bands and singers, vaudevillians, comics and shpielers - all sorts of fun stuff! Check it out! Courtesy THE VITAPHONE PROJECT!
another great idea! ROSETTA: A COLLECTION OF INTERPRETATIONS
How come I didn't think of this?
BUMBY BUMBERA PRESENTS ROCKIN' WAS THEIR BUSINESS... NOT!
Now up to TWO volumes - both great!:
Some really nice AFRS material, circa early '40s: PERSONAL ALBUM featuring GINNY SIMMS, SHIRLEY ROSS, ANITA BOYER, HELEN WARD and GEORGIA GIBBS - a must for those of us who love chick singers - and who doesn't? It's another hit from Jazzman Schmidt! The Latest: PERSONAL ALBUM Vol TWO thank you Henry!
PETER DOYLE PRESENTS
You haven't lived until you've heard "Sing! Sing! Sing!" sung sung sung in the original Italian.
Let's welcome a new member to the fold: John Aldrich,
and his great new disc
TOE TAPPERS!REVOLUTIONARY RHYTHMS Miscellaneous'20s tracks, plus three volumes of DR. D'S DANCE HALL, plus an extra special disc celebrating the beloved IRVING KAUFMAN. Check it out!
New Compilations From Demento:
Are all anthologies of obscure jazz and hot dance material from the late '20s with, not surprisingly if you know the good Doctor, a few hot novelty items!
a really excellent compilation, in both content and sound quality, at least as good as any commercial CD that's been released: Katz and his Kittens, Al Lantz, Abe Lyman's Sharps and Flats
Hot stuff, novelties, a great bunch of bands: Al Lentz, Walt Anderson, Ace Brigode, Paul Specht, Rudy Vallee, Leo Reisman
An interestingly compliment to our Toast Time String anthology, this Demento Disc spotlights jazz and pop fiddlers such as Rubinoff and Eddie South - fascinating stuff, I kid you not!
Miscellaneous dementia (D-087):
Ed Smalle, Billy Cullen, Red "Pepper" Sam, The Four Aces (Human Orchestra), The Whiskey Bottle Boys, Clyde Lucas and his orchestra (another CHINESE RHUMBA!), Gene Klavan, The Four Coins, Mart Britton and his Orchestra, Gene Carroll's Originals.
THE EDDIE LANG PROJECT An ongoing series:
Lang with lots of great singers & bands - assembled by the Jeffster (#1 & #2), the Demented One (#3) & the Great John L (#4 & #5) - we have track lists for all five except volume three, which is not quite finished yet...
The great '20s jazz-pop vocalist, including some tracks with Lang....
Those great Sunbeam LPs now toasted to CDR! NEW - CHECK IT OUT - This series is now up to four discs, including one from John A as well as a remarkable volume of new / old store stock from Jimbo!
Bumby Presents BLUEBIRDS OVER HOLLYWOOD Victor sweet bands play hits from the movies, 1936-1939: Ozzie, Blue Barron, Shepski Fieldski, Willie Farmirino, all those bands we love!
TWO OUTSTANDING COMPILATIONS OF GREAT BRITISH JAZZ AND HOT DANCE MUSIC! First there's Brother Al Simmons's comp : HOT BRITS! and then there's Jimbo's own BRITS PLAY HOTwith plenty, plenty Snappy Peppy Chappies from the late '20s.
JIMMY DURANTE with LANIN'S SOUTHERN SERENADERS and LADD'S BLACK ACES Dan's first project for us in a while - lots of alternate takes and other goodies. A two-CD series.
Demento presents a fascinating compilation of America's first dance music, rags and early blues from the World War One era - this is real roots music! Prince's Band, Pryor, etc.
And now here's something we hope you'll really like: An Alsci-John L Production
THE LEIFERT ARCHIVES COLLECTION
An interesting batch o' goodies that John and I transferred to tape ... gosh, can it be 20 years ago? Anyhow, Uncle Alsci toasted off those vintage open reel tapes and they sound surprisingly good, thanks to the combined efforts of John and Al. Four (or is it five?) volumes of BIG JOHN'S SPECIALS!
And going that one better:
BIG JOHN'S SPECIALS #1: A MERRY MISCELLANY 1928 TO 1936 A really outstanding gathering o' goodies prepared for the group by the Great John L! Check it out! Toastmeister Fave: "Robins and Roses!"
The Great John L Presents BIG JOHN'S SPECIALS VOLUME TWO A delightful cornocopia of various and sundry delights such as only the Great John L could have assembled. Check it out!
TRANSCRIPTION TIME! A Schmidt's Hits Special!
FATHER KNICK'S SHOW MEDLEYS #3
not JENNIFER - it's VINCENT LOPEZ!
A lovely single disc of fun goodies from Father K and Rae B. Guaranteed delight
The Great John L's GREY GULL COLLECTION!
Jimbo presents:
THE NEW PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA, 1975
Check it out - more unreleased performances by this seminal revival ensemble of the mid-'70s!
Jimbo presents:
HARRY RESER PLAYS HOT DANCE MUSIC!
A Cherce sampling of Reser's best and brightest performances, with all of his '20s ensembles - two discs featuring Tommy Stacks, of course!
JIMBO Presents JIMMY'S JOYS Says Jimbo: "I'm sending you volumes 1 and 2 of my new compilation series. I don't know how many volumes will be. These are mainly hot dance/jazz of 1924-1931. They are my favorite sides." Way to go Jimbo!
A great cartoony collection:
lots of musical Disneyana
Mark Berresford presents
Mostly early stuff, some really great acoustic jazz and hot dance items, plus international saxophobia and Leifert's Laments.
coming soon from Father Knickerbocker: Lots of goodies including GEMS FROM LIBERTY MUSIC SHOP, VOLUMES ONE & TWO
The outstanding new vocal group compilation from Demento:
featuring the Merry Macs, The Martins, The Burma Shave Jinglers, great stuff, all of it!
One of our greatest anthologies yet, 26 really excellent hot dance sides from the windy city, 1924-1929, all by bands that did NOT record enough to warrant a disc on their own, including the complete early output of Frankie Masters! [John. L/Waterman]
AL'S ACES VOLUME ONE Being a collection of unusual and delightful sides most expertly collected and toasted by toastland's newest and most welcome denizen, the highly esteemed Mr. Albert Simmons, Esq.Sides 1 to 14 all Edisons - mostly extra-long, extra-hot snappy-peppy dance sides with lots of solos! 15 to 20 all by DEVINE'S WISCONSIN ROOF ORCHESTRA on the BROADWAY label.
A fascinating, ongoing series of stuff prepared for Toast of New York (ToNY) by Al "Alfredo The Replicator" Simmons who has a fascinating assemblage of stuff:
AL'S ACES #1
AL'S ACES #2
AL'S ACES #3
AL'S ACES #4
RAISE THE BANNER HIGH: Rare and exciting releases on the Banner label, 1925-1930
*FORTHCOMING* DICK MCDONOUGH AND HIS ORCHESTRA:
A GREAT BIG BUNCH of new installments in that series we love: ALSCI'S ACES Volumes 11 through 19 of Uncle Alsci's wonderful series of anthologies, all manner of bands from the '20s and '30s. Great hot stuff, I kid you not. Plus a whole disc of BILLY JAMES AND HIS PLAZA B-SIDE BAND!
the TOAST TIME series
These were toasted by Dan "Waterman" Levinson during our many "toasting" sessions at his apartment, and later, Honorable Wilsci-san, tried to put them in some sort of more coherent order - not always successfully, but there's tons of interesting stuff here! From the collections of John Leifert, Lindy Lindemeyer and Rich Markow - our friendly neighborhood Markow agent!
TOAST TIME #1 : HODGE PODGE! Featuring lots of lovely early '30s hot dance sides from John Leifert!
TOAST TIME #2 : HOOKED ON SAXOPHONICS - A fascinating anthology of saxophonia, featuring legendary sax virtuosi (Rudy Wiedoft, Freddy Gardner) and ensembles ( Merle Johnston, Clyde Doerr) and oddities, such as Luiz Americano, a Brazilian sax master circa 1935
TOAST TIME #3 :
AND OTHER OFFBEAT ENSEMBLES OF THE '30s: Starring Joe Venuti (rarities including an Associated TX title I haven't heard anywhere else) and the New Friends of Rhythm with Buster Bailey and Maxine Sullivan
TOAST TIME #4 : (MOSTLY) ACOUSTIC DELIGHTS, FEATURING BENNY KRUEGER AND HIS KRUEGER-RANDS (1919-1926): The All Star Trio, Wiedoft, Lanin, Durante and a mess o 'sides by Kreuger, including the Brox Sisters, plus early electrics by The Golden Gate Orch and the Seattle Jazz Kings.
TOAST TIME #5 : JAZZ and HOT DANCE GEMS, 1927-1932: Reser 1927,
Rich 1928, Denny, Arthur Schutt, Dick Robertson, Vic Meyers, Vincent Rose and the Three Pauls: Specht, Ash and Whiteman!
TOAST TIME #6 : JAZZ and HOT DANCE GEMS, 1931-34: More wonderful ARC bands from John Liefert, plus Ted Lewis, Leo Reisman ("Sing Something Simple!"), Andy Sanella, Sid Peltyn, Ted Weems, Red Nichols (1934) plus bonus tracks: that great Chilean dance band playing "The Merry Go Round Broke Down" (1937 sounding like 1934) and two rare sides by Horace Henderson featuring Ray Nance from 1940 ("Kitty On Toast").
TOAST TIME #7 : JAZZ FROM
(LIKE LA AND THE UK): Lew Stone, Ray Noble, Henry Hall, Ambrose, Jack Jackson and lots of AL BOWLLY - plus, from an equally remote locale, Tom Gerun and Gus Arnheim rarities.
ARC-BRUNSWICK SIDES, 1927-1934 THIS GREAT SERIES, CONSISTING PRIMARILY OF OBSCURE YET WONDERFUL
HOT DANCE SIDES FROM THE BRUNSWICK / ARC LABELS, IS NOW UP TO SEVEN SPECTACULAR VOLUMES!
THANK YOU HENRY! great stuff!
Now Henry offers another great compilation SCHMIDT'S PICKS # 8
THE PHONOGRAPH IN STORY, SONG AND FACTS
Presented by Henry Schmidt. A Fascinating collection of songs and oddball records relating to the history of recording! A great compendium by Henry!
A great collection of Jewish comedy assembled by Dr. D: Eli Basse, Willie Howard, Fyvish Finkle, etc!
Two discs of loverly bands and singers doing songs about flowers. Check this one out! One of our best!
SHERWIN'S SURE WINNERS! and SCHMIDT'S HITS
A really outstanding collection of obscure jazz
DEMENTO SLIGHTLY CHINESE (#082) featuring Ronald Frankau
20 versions of this classic standard
A long document containing details of several dozen CD's prepared for the toasting mishbooker by the legendary DR. DEMENTO
another biggie:
DICK McDONOUGH AND CARL KRESS - THE BIG BAND SESSIONS
Those great hot dance semi-swing all star sides from 1936-1937, featuring a veritable who's who of great white jazzmen, the first time they've ever been done complete. Two CDs, including the 1937 Kress Big band session for World, with Rollini. Vocalists include Chick Bullock and Buddy Clark. Two 79-minute discs!
THE
SMIFF BALLEW COLLECTION:
Mickey Clark, who runs a great CD service in Canada, has produced a three-volume superset of this great '20s-'30s singer with dozens of different bands, including Smiff's own! http://home.infinet.net/mcprod
Two CDs of rare & interesting
ides, circa wartime, from Uncle Alsci.
super duper rarities: ultra rare BG, Basie (w/Prez) & Tatum (with and without Sylvia Syms!)
Al Simmons presents a WILL BRADLEY ORCHESTRA series in anticipation of the one forthcoming from Hep Records.
great gems on BLUE COLUMBIA - three volumes thus far...
latest compilation series:
GUS'S GOODIES, VOLUMES ONE, TWO & THREE!
three volumes of outstanding hot dance music from the early '30s, all from ARC bands! [From Gus Kuhlman + Henry Schmidt!]
Legendary L.A. Collector / Engineer MIKE KEIFFER chimes in with his first Toasted Offering KEIFFER'S KEEPERS!
Three CDs containing virtually everything he did for Victor in the early (pre-"Rhythm") years - with the exception of the piano solos, which ARE available in fairly complete form on domestic CD.
LOUIS PRIMA:
1: 15 Victor tracks (NOT on 1999 Buddah CD), Chamber Music Society show 12/16/40
2: 4 more Victor tracks (NOT on 1999 Buddah CD), 1953 band remote w/Keely, two appearances with SINATRA: 1945 radio show & 1958 TV show w/Keely
3: misc 78s, from all manner of labels - Brunswick, Varsity, etc [DD]
4: Majestics, vol one [DD]
5: Majestics, vol two [DD]
6: Decca, Varsity, Mercury [DD]
7: Robin Hood & the Later Deccas [DD]!
MORE PRIMA: Discs of later stuff from his very rare Prima 1 label!
