The record changer (Feb-Dec 1943)

LEMME TAKE THIS CHORUS Last month we outlined a plan by which William C. Love, William Russell, George Hoefer, and the Record Changer would proceed to work out something or other on rare hot record values . We asked you to help us by sending to the Record Changer a list of jazz records you have which are not listed In Hot Discography. The response to this request has been very gratifying and we thank AMOS WOOD TOM Mc BRIDE JOSH MACK LT. WALLACE FRY KAY BUCKM ASTER, and FRAME GILLIS for the listings of hundreds of records which they have submitted. I have passed these lists on to Mssrs. Love, Russell, and Hoefer, and in the October issue of the Record Changer we will list, and request information on, the ones with which they are not familiar. This list in the October issue might not be very long, as these boys, Hoefer, Love, and Russell are very well informed when it comes to jazz records. George Hoefer was in town a while back, and I attempted to baffle him by asking him about the most obscure records I could think of. Believe me, I wasn't nowhere. George had heard just about everything I could mention . So come on, — see if you can STUMP THE EXPERTS Send us the dope on the jazz records you have which are not listed in Rot Discogra-phy. Give us the following information: RECORDING GROUP LABEL & SERIAL NUMBER NAMES OF TUNES MASTER NUMBERS INSTRUMENTATION YOUR NOTES ON THE PERSONNEL 0000000 Now about that postal situation, — it is absolutely incredible. Collectors here In Washington sometimes actually receive answers to their ads from California collectors, before they themselves receive the Record Changer. Then the next month they receive the publication on time . We stagger the mailing as follows: On the day it is received from the printer, the Record Changer is sent to the West Coast. Two days later it is sent to Southern, Mid West and New England collectors, and on the following day to the remainder of the subscription list. Then I stagger myself into the nearest bar. 000000 "Allow me to express my appreciation for your combined efforts with Mssrs. Love, Russell, and Hoefer in the projected publication which will list and evaluate some thousands of jazz recordings. There is most certainly a dire need for something of this nature, and it would assuredly be a God-send to the uninitiated and beginning collector. Perhaps this publication would curb the outrageous prices now being asked for many items..." Berney Burleson, Johnson City Tennessee. 000000 Well, it looks like this will be the last cover picture we'll get from Don Anderson. He says "Gullickson, I am going to retire. I have become so rich and so famous while in your employ that all my ambitions have been fulfilled. Art has been good to me," he says derisively. The fact is, however, that the War Department is sending Anderson to Aberdeen Proving Ground to study and sketch ordnance material. He is going to have a tough schedule, and will be required to give all his time to this work. Well, all good things must end. I advise ail o"f you who have Record Changers with Anderson's drawings on the cover to hang on to them; one of these days you will really be able to cash in 0VERHEABD ON STATION WMAL, Washington, D . C . "We are very sorry for this delay in bringing you the program by Sammy Kaye . In the meantime we will listen to some music."