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Dolly McVey, "It's My Heart" b/w "Nobody Told Me", Ruby Record #100. For some years now, there has been mystery concerning this label. In my research, I had discovered it to have been from 1955 and, from the typeset in the record's trail off, I knew it was pressed by Capitol records. This was pretty much all I could find.However, for other info, I am thankful to MICHAEL ADAIR for a series of old newspaper clippings he had found, concerning the founding of the label, and of Dolly McVey herself.Ruby #100 is the first record from the Washington D.C. based label. Jim Starnas, a Washington attorney and the promotion director of the Lotus Restaurant in Washington, was the managing director of the label. Pressings for the label was by special arrangement with Capitol Records, New York City.Miss McVey had also sang duets with future RCA Victor recording artist, Eddie Fisher on the "Horn and Hardart Children’s Hour" (later known simply as, "The Children's Hour") over WCAU radio in Philadelphia when both were toddlers. "Dolly McVey, 23, also known as "The Telephone Girl”, had made appearances in the Washington and Miami nightclub scenes. She had married nightclub comedian Johnny Dale in Philadelphia March 1, 1952.