STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - STANDARD SCHOOL BROADCAST - VARIOUS ARTISTS

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Good morning faithful readers and welcome back to the Sunday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again . Today we remember trumpeter turned labor union leader, James Caesar Petrillo (commonly referred to as JC or Jimmy), on this, the 38th anniversary of his passing. He died in 1984, age 92. He was born in Chicago on March 16, 1892. When he was a youth he discovered he had a passion for playing the trumpet, but by the time he was an adult had figured his passion would not feed him, so he got into organizing musicians instead. In 1922 he became President of the Local 10 Chicago Federation of Musicians. Tales of his heavy handled exploits include sending a cable in the 1930s to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, demanding he reprimand the Consul General in Chicago for having the audacity to hire non union bands. Later he became President of the American Federation of Musicians and instituted what became known as the Petrillo Bans, barring union musicians from making recordings until  royalties agreements were hammered out with the record companies. His legacy includes the free concerts at the Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park, several references to him and his Bans in films like The Bells of St. Mary's, Road to Bali, My Favorite Brunette, the musical Sugar, as well as songs and even a reference from Bugs Bunny in Hurdy-Gurdy Hare, where Bugs makes a boatload of cash off a organ grinding monkey and exclaims, , "I sure hope Petrillo doesn't hear about this!" He even performed a piano/trumpet duet of "The Gang's All Here" with former President Harry Truman. One critic called it "possibly the worst rendition ever". 

So why am I telling you all of this ? What does if have to do with today's record ? I was looking through our WEIRD SECTION of records that includes advertising, school related, and radio industry efforts and found a handful of Standard School Broadcasts from 1958 and right there on the label it reads : Recorded By Special Permission Of American Federation Of Musicians J.C. Petrillo, President And American Federation Of Television And Radio Artists. So I started looking into him and here we are. Our copy is a Demonstration edition from the 30th Anniversary edition which was in 1958, as the program was started in 1928. The weekly educational radio program was sponsored by the Standard Oil of California and were played in schools and picked up by NBC for syndication. They promoted American history through stories and song. Here is the track listing and credit information for our copy, which has the opposite labels for each side. All our radio industry records came from the now Legendary J.R.'s Junk Trunk.

MUSIC FOR MANY TASTES :

A1 Signature Theme
Composed By – Carmen Dragon, Julius Haug

A2 High School Cadets March
Composed By – John Philip Sousa

A3 Sweet Adeline
Composed By – Harry Armstrong , Richard Gerard

A4 The Zulu Warrior (Traditional)
Vocals – Marais And Miranda

A5 Boogie Woogie On The St. Louis Blues
Arranged By, Piano – Earl "Fatha" Hines*
Composed By – W. C. Handy

A6 Were You There? (Negro Spiritual)
Bass Vocals – Thurl Ravenscroft

A7 Butterfly
Composed By – Edvard Grieg

A8 Cielto Lindo
Composed By – Fernandez
Tenor Vocals – Raymond Manton

A9 Samson and Delilah: My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice
Composed By – Camille Saint-Saëns
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Lucille Norman

A10 Symphony No. 39: Minuet
Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor – Carmen Dragon
Orchestra – Standard Symphony Orchestra

A11 Village Swallows
Composed By – Josef Strauß
Soprano Vocals [Coloratura] – Mary Costa

A12 The Nutcracker: Valse-Finale
Composed By – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A13 The Vagabond King: Love Me Tonight
Baritone Vocals – Charles Harmon 
Composed By – Rudolf Friml
Soprano Vocals – Norma Larsen

PATRIOT'S SONG BOOK :

B1 Signature Theme
Composed By – Carmen Dragon, Julius Haug

B2 America, the Beautiful
Composed By – Samuel Augustus Ward

B3 Yankee Doodle (Traditional)

B4 The President's March (Hail, Columbia!)
Composed By – Philip Phile

B5 The Star Spangled Banner
Lyrics By – Francis Scott Key
Music By – John Stafford Smith

B6 America
Composed By – Henry Carey 

B7 Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
Composed By – Thomas á Becket

B8 Xango
Composed By – Heitor Villa-Lobos

B9 Battle Hymn of the Republic
Music By – William Steffe

B10 Dixie
Composed By – Daniel Decatur Emmett

B11 America, the Beautiful
Composed By – Samuel Augustus Ward

B12 I Am an American
Adapted By – Adrian Michaelis

Composed By – Carmen Dragon
Narrator – Edmond O'Brien
Written By – Elizabeth Ellen Evans
Band – Standard Symphonic Band

Band – Standard Symphonic Band
Narrator – John Grover 
Orchestra – Standard Symphony Orchestra