Thursday, June 04, 2009
Here is a disc which is attributed to Rex Battle & his dance orchestra. Is this the disc from which Battle, a classical musician, distanced himself in later years?
Quote from:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000220<<<
His few 78s for Apex as a pianist (in Chopin and Liszt) and accompanist (to Ernest-Gill Plamondon and Leon Kofman) are listed in _Roll Back The Years_, as is an Apex 78 whose attribution to 'Rex Battle and His Mount Royal Hotel Orchestra' has been disputed by Battle.
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If Battle really didn't wax this disc, whose tracks are on it? The matrices are only one of four numbers in the run off, and the songs were both very popular about ten years before Battle started his band in 1934, i.e. c. 1924-25.
Apex 8333-A (Mx 26261=1): The midnight waltz
(10000-A / 21053-B)
Apex 8333-B (2627=1): I've found my sweetheart Sally(a.k.a. I found my sweetheart Sally)
(10000-B / 21051-A)
# posted by Fred Freud @ 1:27 p.m. 
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David L wrote twice to provide this answer:
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I think Rust identifies it as the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (Banner 1525 etc).
Actual matrix numbers should be 5890-1 and 5891-1, as well as 2626-1 and 2627-1 (presumably split among Banner, Domino, Emerson and Regal). 21053 is another Apex issue number (Domino Canada). Sterling 10000 is yet another Compo issue number.
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Just reiterating..Battle's name was used by Apex as a pseudonym for a number of other orchestras. Why, since he was a legitimate orchestra leader and concert performer, is beyond me, unless he was known to Herbert Berliner and had no objections at the time. He made no commercial recordings with any dance orchestra. Airchecks may exist, of course..don't forget, there was virtually no Canadian recording industry in the 30s and no call for dance bands except for The Skaters Band and George Wade's Cornhuskers. From the mid 30s on he was leading a "concert" orchestra.
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I think Rust identifies it as the Bar Harbor Society Orchestra (Banner 1525 etc).
Actual matrix numbers should be 5890-1 and 5891-1, as well as 2626-1 and 2627-1 (presumably split among Banner, Domino, Emerson and Regal). 21053 is another Apex issue number (Domino Canada). Sterling 10000 is yet another Compo issue number.
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Just reiterating..Battle's name was used by Apex as a pseudonym for a number of other orchestras. Why, since he was a legitimate orchestra leader and concert performer, is beyond me, unless he was known to Herbert Berliner and had no objections at the time. He made no commercial recordings with any dance orchestra. Airchecks may exist, of course..don't forget, there was virtually no Canadian recording industry in the 30s and no call for dance bands except for The Skaters Band and George Wade's Cornhuskers. From the mid 30s on he was leading a "concert" orchestra.
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