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		Commodore Records is a United States based record label known for issuing many well regarded recordings of jazz and swing music.
		Commodore Records was founded in the spring of 1938 by Milt Gabler, owner of the Commodore Music Shop in Manhattan, New York City.
		After World War II Gabler went to work for Decca Records, and his Commodore label was later used by Decca for reissuing earlier jazz recordings on LP.
	feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Commodore_Records (207 words)

	Milt Gabler: 1911-2001
		He was the first to record musicians in an informal jam session format, a subsequent staple of jazz recording, and co-founded the first mail order record label, the United Hot Clubs of America.
		Although his lasting legacy will lie with the body of work he recorded for the Commodore label, which was active from 1937 until 1954, his two most famous associations lay with Billie Holiday and Bill Haley.
		He produced their initial recording session on 12 April, 1954, much of which was spent cutting a song which the company though the more likely hit of the two due to be recorded that day.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=996507703 (713 words)

	COMMODORE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gabler began selling records in his father's radio shop in NYC '26; the Commodore Music Shop soon became a hangout for musicians, and Gabler was an innovator long before he made a record: his was the first shop to have browsing bins arranged by artist, and he was the first to reissue classic sides.
		He was able to record four tracks by Billie Holiday '39 because Columbia would not record 'Strange Fruit'; he copyrighted 'Fine And Mellow' (a juke box hit) for her in her name, instead of taking a piece himself as other producers might have done.
		The Commodore recordings were finally owned by MCA, then Matsushita, then Universal; the first release '97 was a two-CD set of the complete Billie Holiday, 16 tracks plus alternative takes, but the transfers had never been very good.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /encyclopaedia/c/C208.HTM (475 words)

	Morales Open Records Decision No. 610
		The property and assets of an insurer in receivership "shall be in the custody of the court" as of the date the receivership begins, and the receiver is "vested by operation of law with the title to all of the property, contracts, and rights of action of such insurer." Ins.
		Accordingly, the records of the insurer held by the receiver designated pursuant to article 21.28 of the Insurance Code are records of the judiciary, excepted from the Open Records Act by section 2(1)(H).
		The insurer's books and records are records of the judiciary, and are therefore excepted from the provisions of the Open Records Act by section 2(1)(H) of that statute.
	www.oag.state.tx.us /opinions/or48morales/ord-610.htm (1670 words)

	Grandiose Price for a Modest PC -
		Aficionados of the most popular computer of all time, the low-cost Commodore 64, soon can lay their hands on a piece of history, provided they are willing to pony up a few thousand dollars.
		Commodore's former head of engineering, Charlie Winterble, who oversaw the design of the early '80s computer, will auction off a prototype next month at the Vintage Computer Marketplace.
		The Commodore 64 has frequently been compared to Ford's Model T, as it was the first cheap home computer for the masses.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,60349,00.html (644 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The commodore 64 is, along with the Apple II and the Atari XL computers, the most famous home computer.
		The first one, C64-1, used the VIC 20 case and was to be quickly replaced with the C64-2 (pictured) which used the famous brown case, and later by the C64-3 with small cosmetic changes in the keyboard.
		Commodore produced the first generation of C64s until May 1986, then it was discontinued and they introduced the C64C.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=98&st=1 (594 words)

	COMMODORES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The newest CD Commodores Live was recorded during the group's 1996 U.S. tour and will be released in 1997, along with the television special titled the same.
		The successful Commodores of the present have not only produced five new albums, and embarked upon a worldwide tour, they have also created their own record label, Commodores Records and Entertainment.
		They want your to know that the Commodores, despite a string of monster hits and massive tours in the late '70s and early '80s, won their Grammy Award for the multi-platinum smash single and LP Night Shift in 1986.
	www.class-acts.com /Nationals/commodor.htm (1333 words)

	Office of Naval Records and Library, 1882-1946
		Early naval records like those in most other departments of the Government were considered the property of the various bureaus, offices, or even officials themselves, and usually remained in the haphazard custody of their respective originators.
		The author (Commodore Knox) stressed the importance of recovering records of the Navy's origins and early history both as a means of understanding the past and as a guide to planning for the future of the nation.
		Records and reports of the relatively few naval actions were too urgently required for current study and analysis, as well as too recent to permit the beginning of an archival collection of World War II documents.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/onr_library.htm (14728 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Jazz Exchange - Recording Ban
		A shortage of shellac curtailed the recording of music, and companies stopped making jukeboxes and musical instruments altogether for a time because they were deemed unnecessary to the war effort.
		On August 1, 1942, the American Federation of Musicians ordered its members to stop making records — other than the "V discs" intended only for servicemen — until the record companies agreed to pay them each time their music was played in jukeboxes or on the radio.
		They were wowing small groups of listeners with their innovative new sound, but because of the record ban, only their collaborators and a few dedicated fans would hear the music they had created, which came to be known as bebop.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/exchange/exchange_recording_ban.htm (425 words)

	Verve Music Group - Commodore Originals Series (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commodore Records, founded in 1938 as an offshoot of the legendary mid-Manhattan Jazz record store, was the first record company whose principal motivation was a deep love for the music and whose main goal was to celebrate jazz and its players.
		There it is -- on the record, to be enjoyed and listen to." In 1954, by then a member of Decca's AandR staff, Gabler produced a New Jersey-based hillbilly combo doing their best imitation of a rhythm and blues number.
		The band was Bill Haley and The Comets, the song was "Rock Around The Clock," and alongside a few of Elvis Presley's early RCA releases it ignited the rock 'n roll era.
	www.vervemusicgroup.com /series.aspx?ob=srs&src=prd&sid=15 (297 words)

	Commodore.ca \| Chronology of Commodore Computer History, Jack Tramiel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Commodore releases the upgraded PET 2001 series, with business and non-business version sporting a larger keyboard, expandability to 32k and an improved (bug fixed) BASIC which includes disk support.
		Commodore unveils the Commodore VIC-20 aka "the Friendly Computer" the first color microcomputer to sell for under $300 (299.95), features include a 5k RAM (3.5k for BASIC programs) expandable to 32k, a 22 col x 23 row 8/16 color diisplay capable of hi-resolution graphics, and a joystick interface.
		Commodore International announced that it had been unable to renegotiate terms of its outstanding loans and was closing down the business.
	www.commodore.ca /history/company/chronology_portcommodore.htm (3665 words)

	News Release - Federal Maritime Commission
		Commodore suspended operations and filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code on December 27, 2000 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.
		Commodore previously advised that all requests for refunds should be faxed or mailed to Commodore's offices.
		Shumaker has informed the Commission that packages of instructions and claim forms are being mailed to all passengers and travel agents shown on Commodore's records as having made deposits or other payments, and should be received by all within the next week.
	www.fmc.gov /speeches/newsrelease.asp?SPEECH_ID=137 (315 words)

	Milt Gabler
		One of the most important contributions made by Commodore was its release of the famous Stange Fruit Billie Holiday session when ARC was afraid to release it due to the lyrics (about lynching)**.
		The Commodore was a meeting place for anyone interested in jazz and one of the store's unheralded contributions to jazz history took place after hours when Gene Williams edited the first jazz maagazine in the US: Jazz Information.
		The Commodore catalog was usually available in the UK on the London label, and subsequent reissues appeared on Mainstream and on Commodore labels produced by Columbia's Special Products division and later by a firm involved with Chicago's Rose Record store.
	www.delmark.com /rhythm.gabler.htm (1184 words)

	Commodore.ca \| Products \| Commodore 64 History, Manuals & Photo's 64C 64GS
		Commodore did not 'knock the ball out of the park', they 'knocked the park into the next city'.
		Because Commodore Canada was the last division to fall, much of this inventory had been moved from other sites to their Toronto headquarters and this is where most of the of the prototypes came out of.
		Commodore shows a Golden Jubilee version of the 64 to commemorate the 1,000,000 C64 to be produced in the US Commodore introduces the SX-64, the worlds first portable colour computer.
	www.commodore.ca /products/c64/commodore_64.htm (4285 words)

	C64Music!: Loops and bloops
		After comparing the C64 with its contemporaries, she concludes that the Commodore's music was a combination of both technological constraint and musical aesthetics.
		A comparison of the Commodore with the contemporary Atari VCS shows clearly the superiority of the C64 chip over that of the Atari, which was usually well out of tune (see: Collins, 2005b).
		The Commodore 64 clearly offered enough options for composers to explore that its musicians created their own aesthetic out of the constraints imposed upon them, an aesthetic influenced by outside sources, but one which was also unique to the C64.
	c64music.blogspot.com /2006/04/loops-and-bloops.html (3102 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		There is no record that he was ever married or had children of his own.
		In the William Arnold Papers (Mss 71) there are records of William Arnold and Son, a partnership of William and Stephen Arnold.
		These records are believed to have arrived as part of the "Albert C. and Richard W. Greene Collection." The actual date of the accession is not known for certain, but the collection was in hand by the late 1940s.
	www.rihs.org /mssinv/Mss075.htm (1142 words)

	Thirty Two Bars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a little recording I am partial to by McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans, one of the many groups that feature the two of them in the late 20s.
		I like this recording for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that after the refrain they play the verse.
		The Rhythm Boys in their few years with Whiteman did a number of recordings which took small group harmony, an extremely popular form in the first two decades of the century, and pushed it to its limits in the new jazz idiom.
	www.thirtytwobars.com (1371 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		By the end of the war, some 7,700 of the roughly 17,000 men whose place of nativity is recorded had been born in states that remained within the Union.
		The remainder of the 17,000 men whose place of nativity is recorded— some 7,800 in all— were born in the seceded Confederate states.
		Hardly predictable from the record of fl sailors in the antebellum navy, this demographic division profoundly influenced the fl naval experience during the war.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/2001/fall/black-sailors-1.html?template=print (2682 words)

	All About Jazz - The Definitive Resource for Jazz Music
		Once World War II was over, the nation enjoyed a solid economic recovery and while they didn't go anywhere, a few entrepreneurs took advantage of recording jazz's new progression out of the danceable pop swing style of the time to the more arty bop sounds that were being developed in Harlem and Los Angeles.
		Russell began his career in music as a collector of pre-war 78 jazz recordings and is often considered one of the first canvassers of rare jazz records.
		While most of the releases on Dial are considered classics, Russell was also an innovator, as he kept everything that was recorded in the studio, whether or not it was any good, finished, or even worthy of the material the song was recorded on.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /artists/rrussell.htm (779 words)

	Eye Weekly - Old School - 1 - 12.04.97
		I'd like to think there are still some people who find Billie Holiday's recording of "Strange Fruit" as brutal and affecting as when she recorded it 58 years ago.
		Holiday was quickly approached by Milt Gabler, owner of 42nd Street's Commodore record store, who offered to negotiate with Columbia on her behalf to record the song for his own fledgling label.
		The first non-commercial jazz labels were devoted to reissuing the records of the '20s and, when they ran out, getting the musicians on those records back into the studio to re-create that sound.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_12.04.97/music/oldschool.html (855 words)

	1982 - Commodore 64
		The C64, together with the Commodore PET and VIC-20 were pioneering forays into the emergent personal computer industry, in a time characterized by many varieties of mostly incompatible machines.
		While the acronym reportedly stood for "Commodore Overstock Management Bureau", it was more commonly referred to as an acronym for "Crawling Out My Butt", referring to the sheer numbers of Plus/4s that were stuck in warehouses across the country that were eventually returned to Commodore.
		In 1986, Commodore released the Commodore 64C (C64C) computer, which was functionally identical to the original, but whose exterior design was remodelled in the spirit of the C128 and other contemporary design trends.
	store.gameasylum.us /commodore641.html (3292 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats
		As a result, "The Complete Commodore Recordings" includes the initial "Strange Fruit" session, but also three sessions from 1944 at which she gave classic performances of "I Cover the Waterfront," "I'll Be Seeing You," "Billie's Blues" and others.
		There are five takes of "He's Funny That Way," and two of them are sprightly, as are several other Commodore records, the cheerful "On the Sunny Side of the Street" and the wise-cracking "Billie's Blues." When she does become dramatic, she is stunning in a new way.
		Although it is certainly true that these Commodore sides don't have the perfect balance between singer and accompanist, or the illuminating solos, of the Columbia recordings, these sessions throw the emphasis on Holiday as an expressive singer at a time when her voice and her manner could still handle the attention.
	www.salon.com /feb97/sharps/sharps970206.html (1384 words)

	Iowa Sailing Club - Ship's Customs
		Vice-Commodore: shall substitute for the Commodore when absent and shall assist the Commodore in performance of the duties of the office; shall be responsible for sailing instruction; shall be the primary examiner for Crew, Light Weather Helmsman, Heavy Weather Helmsman and Skipper, and shall keep written records of people who have passed tests.
		Secretary: shall send notice of meetings, keep minutes and attendance records of the business meetings, records of the club's activities, and a secretary's notebook of useful information received by the club; shall conduct the club's correspondence; shall have and make available to any member upon request a copy of the constitution of the club.
		Executive Advisor: shall be appointed by the Commodore with the consent of the Executive Board and shall function as an advisor to the Executive Board.
	www.uiowa.edu /~sail/library/officersduties1.htm (297 words)

	Amazon.com: The Commodore Master Takes: Music: Billie Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Commodore Master Takes, recorded for Milt Gabler's small independent label, were a step towards Holiday's eventual infamy, thanks notably to the recording of "Strange Fruit," a controversial song about lynching that Columbia Records simply refused.
		Recording with several small bands that seemed to understand the nuances of her voice perfectly, Holiday is in full command of her faculties here, without a trace of her later deterioration.
		On the other hand, the material on the Commodores is superior; she recorded only the finest standards and blues, as opposed to the hokum she was regularly forced to deal with for Columbia.
	www.amazon.com /Commodore-Master-Takes-Billie-Holiday/dp/B00003G1JG (1451 words)

	JAM: December 2003/January 2004 Issue Long Playing Records... R.I.P.
		Fortunately, phonograph records evolved alongside the nation's rapidly expanding jazz activity, and have preserved almost the entire history of the music.
		After 1925, the music was electrically recorded with microphones replacing the conical horns that previously transmitted sound vibrations to a wax master disc.
		Those Victor records fully capture the Duke's great solo artists, his intricate section work, and his balanced rhythm section, all floating against the firm support of Wellman Braud's vivid acoustic string bass.
	www.jazzkc.org /issues/2003-12/riplp.html (670 words)

	Original Dixieland Jass Band
		The Original Dixieland Jazz Band had recorded for Columbia in January 1917, but the session was unsuccessful and the band had to come back and re-record the songs, thus the release of the Columbia sides did not come about until after the amazing success of the Victor records.
		They signed a new record contract with Okeh, but the public began to tire of them and they never regained the sales or popularity of their initial success.
		Eddie Edwards formed a version of the band that recorded a V-Disc during World War II and for Commodore Records in 1945 and 1946.
	www.redhotjazz.com /odjb.html (721 words)

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