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Artist: Herb Jeffries And Eddie Beal Trio Label:   Excelsior Country: USA Catalogue: 00100 / 00101 Date: Oct 1942 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Herb Jeffries And Eddie Beal Trio	At Least You Could Save Me A Dream	Otis Rene, Joe Greene	Rate
B	Eddie Beal Trio	String Foo-Losophy	Livingston, Beal, Rene	Rate

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A: Vocal Solo by Herb "Flamingo" Jeffries
Eddie Beal Trio - Three Shades of Rhythm
Vocal Chorus Directed by Carl Jones

B: "Eddie Beal Trio":
Eddie Beal - Piano, Ulysses Livingston - Guitar, Joe Comfort - Bass

Down Beat Oct 15, 1942, page 9: "Herb Jeffries Has New Record Concern"

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fixbutte 7th Oct 2019		Thanks xiphophilos and KeithS. Referring to the quoted article in Down Beat October 15, 1942, an autumn 1942 recording of these sides is rather firm, and Eddie Beal's actual military service time (in contrast to the dates on Wikipedia) is not an obstacle. Vocalgroupharmony.com is inaccurate anyway as it lists both releases of "At Least You Could Save Me A Dream", none of which was released in 1944 though. Whereas Excelsior HJ-100 / TR-107 came out in April or May 1945, this record here was definitely not released after mid-1943.
KeithS SUBS 7th Oct 2019		More info and a 1944 date and a sound bite here
xiphophilos 7th Oct 2019		According to the US Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, Corporal Eddie Beal (Edward Truman Beal), born June 13, 1910, served in the U.S. Army between September 18, 1943 and September 28, 1945. He registered for the draft on October 16, 1940, when he lived in Los Angeles. As his employer, he listed Robert Lubitz. He has a military grave in the Los Angeles National Cemetery.
fixbutte 7th Oct 2019		Looking further I have found two sources that seem to suggest a mid-1943 recording: ¤ According to Wikipedia, Eddie Beal did his military service from 1941 to 1943 (not confirmed anywhere else yet). ¤ On its night club combo pages of July 17, 1943 Billboard reports that Herb Jeffries, former Ellington singer, has joined the Eddie Beal Trio at the Circle, Hollywood (page 21). Confirming the autumn 1942 recording date though, California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West, a book edited by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDjenad and Eddie S. Meadows, says on its page 92: By the fall of 1942 he [Herb Jeffries] was back in Los Angeles, signed to Otis Rene's new Excelsior Records and cutting sides with the Eddie Beale Trio, and it gives a contemporary source for that, a Down Beat article of October 15, 1942, with the headline "Herb Jeffries Has New Record Concern", fn 136.
fixbutte 7th Oct 2019		As said before, the first two Excelsior records were apparently recorded and released before the recording ban was lifted. As 00102 / 00103 was recorded in October 1942, this one here was most probably recorded in autumn 1942 as well, matching the book's quote about Jeffries' relocation in 1942. "At Least You Could Save Me A Dream" was apparently the only side that Jeffries recorded for Excelsior then, but when it was reissued in 1945 he was indeed active for the label of Otis René's brother, Leon René, who had founded Exclusive Records (often confused with Excelsior) at around the same time.
KeithS SUBS 7th Oct 2019		.....From the book "The Later Swing Era" When Jeffries left Ellington in 1942 he settled in Los Angeles and became a successful entrepreneur with a nightclub called The Black Flamingo. He continued to sing in other LA clubs for about three years before signing a contract with Exclusive Records...
fixbutte 7th Oct 2019		Not much to find on the web about this record, which was actually the first release of Otis René's Excelsior label. Although sources differ from 1942 to 1945 for the release year, 1942 seems the appropriate choice. Excelsior was apparently founded in 1942 to get around the recording ban, and 00102 / 00103, the label's second release, was recorded after the ban was put anyway. Obviously both that one and this one were released before the recording ban was lifted for Capitol Records in October 1943, when Otis René decided to lease the King Cole Trio sides to that major label, see Capitol 139. The Herb Jeffries side of this record here was reissued in May 1945 on René's own label though, see Excelsior HJ-100 / TR-107.

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