FRANKIE MASTERS and his Orchestra "SCATTERBRAIN" in stereo.....a John Lennon favourite...

mono to stereo mixes.sixties etc, stereo mixes...
Born in St. Marys, West Virginia, to Alice (née Evans) and William Masterman, Masters graduated from Robinson High School in southern Illinois. He attended Indiana University Bloomington, where he majored in Commerce and led a band that performed at college dances, playing the banjo. During the summer, he found work as a guitarist with the orchestra on the cruise ship S.S. President Madison as it headed for Asia. When he returned, he joined a big band led by Benny Krueger at the Tivoli Theatre in Chicago. There, they would accompany silent films and be featured as an on-stage band between screenings.

He signed with Victor Records in 1927 and began his recording career, but didn't achieve much success until he switched to Vocalion Records in 1939. There he recorded what would become his theme song, "Scatter-Brain," written by Masters and band members Carl Bean and Kahn Keene, with lyrics by Johnny Burke. It was a number one hit for eight weeks in 1939, becoming the #28 song overall on the pop charts that year. Many of these hits incorporated what Masters called "bell tone music," an arrangement gimmick in which chords were staggered, creating, for the time, a trademark sound.
John Lennon wrote "Hello Little Girl" near the end of 1957, Lennon described it as one of his first finished compositions. Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn describes it as "the third song he wrote (but the first to stick)". According to Lennon, he drew on an old "Thirties or Forties song" that his mother sang to him. Lewisohn identifies it as the 1939 dance-band and film number "Scatterbrain". In particular, Lennon was captured by the rhythmic flow of lines like, "When you smile it's so delightful / When you talk it's so insane / Still it's charming chatter, scatterbrain."