A DISCOGRAPHY MOMENT: PEGGY LEE - SEPTEMBER 14, 1950

Here is what Peggy Lee was recording for Capitol Records on this day in 1950...

September 14, 1950

Location: Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA

Label: CAPITOL
Capitol Session #1912

Peggy Lee (ldr), Dave Barbour And His Orchestra (acc), Unknown (b, str, p, d), Peggy Lee (v), The Jud Conlon Choir (bkv)

a. 6607-7Master Take (Capitol) Where Are You? - 3:01(Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson) / arr: Richard "Dick" Hazard
CAPITOL 78 & 451298 & F 1298 — {Ay, Ay, Chug A Chug / Where Are You?} (1950)
Armed Forces Radio Service 16" Transcription DiscP 1785 - P 1786 — Basic Music Library [6 Peggy Lee vocals] (1951)
CAPITOL (10") LP(United Kingdom) Lc 6584 — Capitol Presents ... Peggy Lee (1953)

b. 6608-8Master Take (Capitol) Once In A Lifetime - 2:46(Mel Torme, Robert Wells) / arr: Richard "Dick" Hazard
CAPITOL 78 & 451244 & F 1244 — {Once In A Lifetime / Life Is So Peculiar} (1950)
Armed Forces Radio Service 16" Transcription DiscP 1725 - P 1276 — Basic Music Library [6 Peggy Lee vocals] (1950)
 CAPITOL©EMI CD7243 5 39756 2 3 — THE SINGLES COLLECTION (2002)

c. 6609-3Master Take (Capitol) Something To Remember You By - 2:51(Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) / arr: Henry J. "Heinie" Beau
Collectors' Choice Licensed CDCcm 917 — THE LOST '40'S & '50'S CAPITOL MASTERS (2008)

THE BOX OFFICE STARS: 1950

As we entered a new decade in 1950, movie audiences were beginning to change as well. Who they were going to see on the movie screen was changing as well. Here are the biggest box office draws in 1950...

1. JOHN WAYNE
2. BOB HOPE
3. BING CROSBY
4. BETTY GRABLE
5. JAMES STEWART
6. ABBOTT/COSTELLO
7. CLIFTON WEBB
8. ESTHER WILLIAMS
9. SPENCER TRACY
10. RANDOLPH SCOTT

STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO: AL JOLSON

Here is a new photo I discovered of the funeral procession of Al Jolson. He died on October 23, 1950 at the age of 64. Photograph caption dated October 26, 1950 reads, "The casket bearing the body of the mammy singer is shown arriving at the temple. The 10 active pallbearers were Harry Brand, Harry Cohn, Harry Akst, Martin Fried, Louis Epstein, Nathan Kramer, Arthur Stebbins, Johnson Steinberg, Maurice Aroff and Al Goetz, some of the singer's closest friends."