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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 17 08:03:09 PST 2009


davdieh at aol.com wrote:
>  -----Original Message-----
> 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
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> I have copies of both dubs and each has the the same mx. and take. Whatsa earlier mx. no.?
> David Diehl 

Complete: 24050-1 (no prefix)
Edit: can't find at the moment but it's in the 27xxx neighborhood

dl



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