78 RPM - The Varsity Seven - Shake It And Break It / A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody - Varsity - USA

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Artist:	The Varsity Seven
Label:	Varsity
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	8179
Date:	1940
Format:	10"
Genre:	Jazz
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	The Varsity Seven	Shake It And Break It		Rate
B	The Varsity Seven	A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody	Irving Berlin	Rate

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Matrix A: US1285-1 voc. Joe Turner
Matrix B: US1286-1
recorded New York, NY, January 15, 1940.

The Varsity Seven included Coleman Hawkins, who plays the tenor saxophone here under the pseudonym Carleton Harkins.

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DeweyGill SUBS ● 31st Jul 2024		I remember that there was some friction around the time of his departure, I’ll have to dig out my old Downbeats from that era. i seem to remember them chronicling that rift at the time



xiphophilos 31st Jul 2024		Eli Oberstein worked for Victor between 1929 and February 1939, rising from salesman and accountant to recording supervisor and finally head of RCA Victor's budget label Bluebird, which he built into a major pop music label. By 1940, when this was recorded, Oberstein had left (was fired from?) RCA Victor. He ran the Varsity label as a budget label that was supposed to rival the Bluebird label. Around the fall of 1940, both Varsity and its sister label Royale went bust. That did not stop Oberstein, however. By 1941, he had founded another record company and released the Elite and later the Hit Record label. Both managed to issue new records even during the 1942-1943 Petrillo recording ban and despite the scarcity of shellac during the war years. More on Oberstein here.



DeweyGill SUBS ● 31st Jul 2024		Thanks, Mike. He tried changing his phrasing, but he couldn’t change his tone. And I’m not sure what Eli Oberstein’s relationship was with Victor anymore.



Mike Gann 31st Jul 2024		Per this website Carleton Harkins is a pseudonym for Coleman Hawkins. https://www.swingdjs.com/viewtopic.php?t=990



DeweyGill SUBS ● 31st Jul 2024		Are we sure Carleton Harkins isn’t Coleman Hawkins moonlighting? He was under contract to Victor as a bandleader at the time.

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