MORRISON'S ORCHESTRA
Homebase: Seattle, WA
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Misc Notes: Sometimes credited as MORRISON'S RECORDING ORCHESTRA. Emil Birnbaum; Gretchen Cade; DeWitt Clingenpeel; Art Pease - Alice Morrison; Morrie Morrison; Lew Morrison.
SEE ALSO:
1.) CURTIS, ARVON / STANLEY, ALAN (Morrison #98)
1.) SMITH, DALE (Morrison #522)
"Morrie and Alice Morrison— Northwest Music Industry Pioneers"
by Peter Blecha
[Copyright (c) 2005 HistoryLink.org & Author]
"At the dawn of the Roaring Twenties, a Pacific Northwest couple -- Howell Oakdeane 'Morrie' Morrison (1888-1984) and his wife, Alice Nadine Morrison (1892-1978) -- launched what became the region's first successful local commercial pop music empire. Fueled by a fortune made off royalties earned from a string of original hit song compositions, the Morrisons' pioneering web of interrelated mom-and-pop businesses would grow to include a dance school, a sheet music publishing company, a vaudeville orchestra, a dancehall chain, a record label, a Seattle-based recording studio (with a record-pressing plant), and even a film production endeavor." [READ MORE...]
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
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A-SIDE STAMPER CODE: 3089
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B-SIDE STAMPER CODE: 3090
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Yellow label
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SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
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FORMAT:disc
SIZE:10"
SPEED:78 rpm
DISC NOTES:Lew Morrison - vocal
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A-SIDE COMPOSER:Rose Satterly
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B-SIDE COMPOSER:Minna Lee Hansen
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FORMAT:disc
SIZE:10"
SPEED:78 rpm
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B-SIDE COMPOSER:Alice Nadine Morrison
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MISC NOTES: Issued with dance instruction sheet
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FORMAT:disc
SIZE:10"
SPEED:78 rpm
DISC NOTES: Some labels printed without disc number or with number 511. In both instances, 505 stamped on later. Some discs issued with orange/yellow label color format with Morrison Record name only
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A-SIDE COMPOSER:Morrie O. Morrison
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B-SIDE COMPOSER:Juanita Fleming
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Known Disc Colorizations:
1.) Translucent Red Vinyl
2.) Translucent Gold Vinyl
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FORMAT:disc
SIZE:7"
SPEED:45 rpm
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Artist name on disc label: Morrison Orchestra
A-SIDE MATRIX:
1.) No. 99 A
2.) No. 99 A
A-SIDE STAMPER CODE:
1.) 99 B 6 - 462 - C (etched)
2.) 99 B 6 - 462 - C (etched)
A-SIDE COMPOSER:Alice and Morrie Morrison
A-SIDE PUBLISHER: (BMI)