#725 (Week of 9/17/11 - 9/23/11)

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"Be Sure"/"I've Got A Right To Be Blue"
by Madeline Greene And The Magichords
on Domino D-310/311
released in 1950

Above: Photo of Madeline Greene from the early 1940's.

Above: Domino Records clipping from the 1/14/50 edition of The Billboard magazine.

From The Billboard 12/17/49:
Domino Blues Firm Revives, Inks Talent
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 — Domino Records, local blues-rhythm diskery formed early this year, has been re-organized and re-activated. H.B. Graham, one of the founders, has pulled out, and Seymour Goldblum, former manager of the Chubby Jackson band, has taken over as general manager. Other partners, with Goldblum, are Jimmie Robinson and Lloyd G. Newton. Rene Hall is music director.
Artists featured in the diskery's first releases under the new set-up include blues singer Max Bailey and orksters Eddie (Lockjaw) Davis and Buddy Tate. Bailey is signed exclusively with the label.

From The Billboard 1/14/50: Seymour Goldblum, general manager of Domino diskery, leaves January 6 on a Southern trip to line up distributors. Jim McCarthy is handling publicity and promotion for the label....

From The Billboard 2/4/50: Seymour Goldblum has inked the Erskine Hawkins vocalist, Madeline Greene, for his Domino label. The Magichords vocal group signed with the same diskery....

From The Billboard 5/27/50: Domino Records has inked young blues chanter, Google Eyes, thrush Madeline Greene and Buddy Tate and his crew in addition to appointing Rene Hall as firm's musical director....

Above: Label image of Domino D-310 released in March 1950. Madeline Greene also had six records (one side each) with Earl Hines Orchestra on Bluebird (1941-42) backed by The Three Varieties (aka Boys).

The Magichords had one release of their own on Domino (1950), two releases on Regal (1949), one release on Marlow (1950), and one on Tri-Tone (1952). Marlow may have been affiliated with the Domino label. They also backed Sylvia Vanterpool (later to become Little Sylvia whose correctly spelled last name is "Vanderpool") on two records (one side each) on Columbia (1950).

Composer Wilhelmina Gray was an actress, rhythm & blues singer who recorded for the Seeco label (1953) and had at least one release on M-G-M (1957), and songwriter (for Louis Jordan and others).

Listen to this week's selections by Madeline Greene And The Magichords on Domino D-310/311 from 1950: [Audio restoration by Dave Saviet.]

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Madeline Greene 1942

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