mystery Test Pressing of “Moonglow”

[CarlosV]

Sounds like Guy Lombardo

[gramophone-georg]

Sounds like Guy Lombardo

I thought so, too, but Lombardo's "Moonglow" was recorded in NY- not Chicago- on August 13, 1934 which puts it right in the target dates on the right label (Decca 103) but wrong place and wrong matrix number- 38292.

Rust shows Lombardo's last Chicago Decca Depression- era session as Sept. 27 1933 and then he recorded exclusively in NYC and LA until he did so in Chicago again July 2 1936- for Victor, not Decca.

[howardpgh]

Just a wild guess, the vocalist sounds like Joey Nash to me (Richard Himber's vocalist). I'm listening through small computer speakers.

[gramophone-georg]

Just a wild guess, the vocalist sounds like Joey Nash to me (Richard Himber's vocalist). I'm listening through small computer speakers.

It sounds like a few different vocalists, I'll agree. Himber, however, was recording for Victor in 1934, having left Vocalion in late 1933. I don't think he ever recorded "Moonglow", either.

Nash sang with some other bands of the era, too, mainly on Bluebird.

I'm coming up empty on this one.

[Roaring20s]

Thanks for all of the replies. I guess we just have to accept the mystery, for now.

James.

[gramophone-georg]

Thanks for all of the replies. I guess we just have to accept the mystery, for now.

James.

See what you've done? Now you go stand in the corner and you think about this.