Dot Records founder Randy Wood dies

[brownie]

From The Los Angeles Times today.

In addition to Louis Armstrong and Count Basie, the label also included albums by Eddie Costa, Lorraine Geller, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman and others in its jazz catalogue.

[Steve Gray]

I think of Randy in terms of 'Randy's Records In Gallatin Tennessee'

I still have a few of his mail order catalogues from the mid 60s.

Bought a lot of STAX singles that way.

RIP Randy Wood.

[Teasing the Korean]

Dot released one of my favorite exotica albums, "Jasmine and Jade" by Axel Stordahl.

[paul secor]

From The Los Angeles Times today.

In addition to Louis Armstrong and Count Basie, the label also included albums by Eddie Costa, Lorraine Geller, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman and others in its jazz catalogue.

Don't think of Dot Records as a label that recorded jazz, tho it did. But when I think of Dot Records, I think of Pat Boone.

[GA Russell]

Wasn't Dot Lawrence Welk's label for many years? I also think that Steve Allen recorded for them.

PS - Now that I have taken the time to read the obit, which I should have done before posting, I can see about Welk. I remember Welk with Ranwood as well, but didn't know that that was another Randy Wood operation. I had also forgotten that Wipeout was on Dot.

Edited April 16, 2011 by GA Russell

[JSngry]

Ken Nordine.

[medjuck]

What would be considered R&B records 1945-1948? Louis Jordan? Illinois Jacquet? Charles Brown? T-Bone Walker? I can think of quite a few people in the late '40s but not as early as '45. (I'm not saying there weren't any, just that I don't know of any unless includes a lot of musicians I think of as Blues artists.)

[JSngry]

[jeffcrom]

I love that one, for what it is.

I've got a nice Dot 78 by Rusty Bryant - "Slow Drag" and "Pink Champagne" - with Hank Marr on piano.

[Swinging Swede]

What would be considered R&B records 1945-1948? Louis Jordan? Illinois Jacquet? Charles Brown? T-Bone Walker? I can think of quite a few people in the late '40s but not as early as '45. (I'm not saying there weren't any, just that I don't know of any unless includes a lot of musicians I think of as Blues artists.)

The term "R&B" had not been coined yet and it is of course a gradual shift from swing and blues and not always easy to draw the lines between the different genres, but some who recorded in 1945 what in retrospect is considered to be early R&B are:

Louis Jordan

T-Bone Walker

Joe Liggins

Roy Milton

Wynonie Harris

Bull Moose Jackson

Jack McVea

[gmonahan]

This one was reissued on cd on the Ranwood label. Actually, it's not a bad record. Some fair arrangements by Benny Carter, Marty Paich, and Jerry Gray. It is the only album by Lawrence Welk in my collection.

gregmo