[78-L] Moten's "South"

[David Lewis]

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca wrote: "South" may have been issued to juke box operators in the mid 40s, in which case it would indeed have been pressed on both sides. This sounds familiar. The V-38021 would have been the original issue in Victor's "race" series and 24893 the renumbering in the regular Victor catalogue around 1935. 
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Indeed, "South" was available on 45 as well; I'm not sure of the coupling, but I have it.
So it was still being pressed for jukeboxes into the 1950s. This had to be one of the longest "in print" runs for any Victor records outside of Caruso.  
 
Uncle Dave Lewisuncledavelewis at hotmail.com J.F. Bennett wrote:> Folks,> > I was looking up Bennie Moten's *South* for someone tonight and bumped> into a question. Moten recorded *South* only twice correct? Once for Okeh> and once for VTMCo.?> One of my meager sources lists Okeh 8194 with *Vine Street Blues* on the> flip and a matrix number 8769-B, but another source lists it as 9184-B with> no mention of a flip side recording. Both give a date of Nov. 29, 1924> although one adds a question mark to that date. Which catalogue is correct?> For the Victor recording I have once source listing V-38021-A and 24893-A> and the other listing just the V-38021 and a matrix number 42935-1, the> former also gives *She's No Trouble* as the B-side of both numbers.> September 7, 1928 is given as a recording date from both sources.> I'm curious why two Victor numbers. Also how long was this in the> catalogue? At what point was it "re-issued" I have both "Circle Victor" &> "Circle RCA Victor" pressings, but not a Scroll. The "Circle Victor" is> numbered 24893, I can't locate the RCA to check that one. I know this was> deservedly a very popular recording so I'm sure it was carried for a long> time. Also someone told me a story probably apocryphal that at one point *> South* was issued on both sides of a record. I doubt it, but I thought I'd> better ask the experts! Thank you in advance.> > Regards,> John B.
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