Re: [ARSCLIST] Odd RCA Victor release...

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Lavalle              Bandmaster Paul LaValle (1908-97) of the Cities Service Concert program... He would later conduct the McDonald's All-American Band at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day and Tournament of Roses Parades for many years. He is known to tuba players as the composer of the march, Big Joe, the Tuba.
              
             Paul played in numerous bands during the 1930s, including one in Havana, Cuba. In 1933, he was employed by NBC as a staff musician which also included playing with the NBC Symphony. Attended Juilliard for three years. During early 1940s, Paul arranged and led various bands in and around New York. He appeared on numerous radio shows including the very popular 'Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street' (a young Dinah Shore was the 'girl' singer). In those days, NBC was actually 'two' networks. New York City station WEAF (660 KC) was the 'flagship' station of the "NBC-Blue Network", while Station WJZ (770 KC) was the New York City flagship of the "NBC-Red Network". The Chamber Music Society show was heard on WEAF. In the late 1940s, LaValle organized and led the Band of America. It subsequently became the official band of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Paul had one charted popular recording: "ALWAYS", that made it to number 29 (on the Top-40 Charts) for
 one week in November of 1944.
http://www.bandofamerica.org/board.html


Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lavalle http://www.old-time.com/commercials/1950's/Cities%20Service.htm 

They had lots of commercially issued records.They are a lot more common than something like The A&P Gypsies,or even The Ipana Troubadors.Can't say why yours is single sided.

                                             Roger






Graham Newton <gn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I recently acquired a single sided black label RCA Victor 10" 78rpm  #20-5205
matrix E3VB-0518-1A, pressed on vinyl with that gorgeous spider logo on the back.

It is "United Press March" - Paul Lavalle, Cities Service Band of America
conducted by the composer.

I'm wondering if this was used as some kind of theme for radio programming,
from the title, probably newspaper related, but it doesn't seem to be the kind
of thing that would usually be sold to the consumer market.

Does anyone know anything about this?




... Graham Newton

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