DC Records 9500 Series

DC 9500 Series

Society Bands

January 1947

Discography by Jay Bruder

The first two records released on DC by Mrs. Lillian Claiborne and Haskell Davis were noted in the trade magazines in January and February of 1947. They featured the local bandleader Tiny Meeker who was frequently employed at major formal events around Washington to include events at the National Press Club and at the larger hotels such as the Wardman Park Hotel. This society music seems to be what Mrs. Claiborne thought was appropriate product for a respectable record company. It unfortunately had limited sales. The matrix numbers for these four sides, two of which bear a "USR" prefix, likely originated from U. S. Recording Studios and are in sequence with a vocal group record on Wicks 9558/9559. The copyright dates for the songs on the Wicks record also support a late 1946 release date which allows our key dates to fall neatly into place. There is no indication of Claiborne-Davis involvement on the Wicks record. These two DC releases preserve the antiquarian practice of assigning a different catalog number to each side of the record (in this case the studio matrix numbers were used). They also used a early and somewhat plain looking logotype on the label which will be referred to as Label Style I.