The rare and Elusive San Francisco/ Hollywood Mac Gregor Label.

Started in the 1920s for local and advertising records, it became famous for some of the first Radio transcription discs like the 1931 Anson Weeks recordings. MacGregor later expanded to Hollywood, and produced a lot of Musical Library records used in Movie and Radio productions.

Great Square Dance by Southern California Bands and Callers

Caller Fenton "Jonesy" Jones* And Jack Barbour's California Clippers – Wreck Of The 97 / Throw In The Clutch


Label: Mac Gregor – 620
Format: 
Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM,
Country: US
Released: 
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
A  Wreck Of The 97
B  Throw In The Clutch ("RESEDA BLISTER")
Music By – The Jones Boys

Orig Issue Mac Gregor  10" 78 rpm record

Condition:

Fenton Jones
Real Name: Fenton G. "Jonesy" Jones
Profile: 
American musician, best known as a square dance caller.
Born June 2, 1907 Los Angeles, California.
Died June 30, 2003 (aged 96) Glendale, California.
Besides recording, he was a square dance caller in a dozen films.
Jones was born in 1907 in Los Angeles, California.[3] His mother, who died when Jones was seven years old, was a pianist and guitarist.[4] Jones began calling dances in 1940, touring the United States and calling at various square dancing events. He also called dances regularly at his home state of California.[5] He was known for dressing up in a Western-style at his events he worked, once stating that "short sleeves have been eliminated" while describing what he saw as a "rigid" dress code for square dance callers in a 1952 article.[5] Jones also released records of his calls under the C. P. MacGregor Records label, including "My Little Girl", "Down Yonder" and "Oh Johnny".[5] He had previously recorded his calls, first in 1946 on the Black and White then on Imperial, Capitol, MGM and Mastertone labels.[6] Jones also appeared in many films television series in the 1970s and 1980s, most often uncredited, as a square dance caller.[6]

Jones was married to Florence. He is a member of the Square Dance Hall of Fame.[6] He died in 2003. He had resided in Glendale, California for majority of his life.

C.P. MacGregor Company
C.P. MacGregor Company image
Profile: 
The C.P. MacGregor Company was a Los Angeles, California sound recording firm that was started in the 1920s by C.P. "Chip" MacGregor, a former manager at the San Francisco office of Brunswick Records (then owned by Warner Bros.). The company became very successful and lasted until his death in 1977, producing, recording, and transcribing numerous radio commercials for business and politics, nationally syndicated radio shows, public announcements, educational and instructional recordings, training recordings, interviews and speeches, and a wide variety of music for numerous record companies between the 1930s and 1970s. An associated recording studio, a radio performance studio with live audience space, record label, and record pressing facility were integral parts of the operation.

Besides the C.P. MacGregor Studios at 729 S. Western Ave in Hollywood, there was as a studio on Mission Street in San Francisco from 1932 to 1937, and a pressing plant in Oakland, California which produced "Royal Blue" 78 RPM discs for Columbia Records in the 1930s. MacGregor became so prolific at producing electrical transcriptions that he was called "the DeMille of the discs"; original syndicated "Hollywood-Style dramas" were produced on-site which were sold to radio stations across the country for $17.50 per episode. MacGregor also provided recording services for the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS).