[78-L] Record edits, wuz Re: Original Sound of the 20s~Frances Williams

[David Lennick]

David Weiner wrote:
> 
> Yes, I didn't know about the Gershwin edit until that record showed up
> on one of those Rockefeller New World albums.  The most obvious edit is the
> opener to the Buddy Rogers record, "this is my first recording...,"  Why, oh
> why, would they do that??  (And what record did they lift it from?)
>  
> ---------
> The Buddy Rogers has something added, not removed! The opening announcement
> is from his recording of "Anytime's the Time to Fall in Love," which then
> segues into the COMPLETE 	recording of "Sweepin' the Clouds Away."
> Both songs are from the 1930 film, PARAMOUNT ON PARADE.
> 
> Dave W. 
> 
Ever run across an edited 78..on 78? Rex recut the opening part of Gracie 
Fields' first side for them because it referred to the price. 9515 was a 
reissue of "Turn 'Erbert's Face to the Wall, Mother" (8557) but the spoken 
intro was masked.  Another 78 edit was the late 40s American Victor issue of 
Ambrose's "Eleven More Months and Ten More Days", to remove an offensive racial 
slur.

Then there's Paul Whiteman's "Sweet Sue", which exists in edited and complete 
versions on ten-inch red Columbia. That confused me for years because the album 
notes (the first Bix set) said they'd "dropped the florid introduction" but the 
side still ran 4'20". Only much later did I find that earlier pressings were 
about a minute shorter and later ones used a complete transfer (with a lower 
matrix number, so they must have tried the edit in 1939 and not used it till 
later, possibly by accident).

dl