[78-L] Capital Series

Glenn Longwell glongwell at snet.net
Tue Mar 3 18:22:25 PST 2009


Here's all I have on Capitol.
 
http://majesticrecord.com/labelscapitol.htm
 
There are two different blue versions.  One is Mel Blanc and the other is Kenton Presents Jazz.  I haven't done any digging to determine dates, etc. of the different types yet.
 
Glenn

--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Capital Series
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 9:00 PM

So they only did the blue labels on select jazz items?

On 3/4/09, David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> My 78 of Capitol 1713, 'What's new' b/w 'The hot
canary', Maynard
> Ferguson with the Stan Kenton ork, has a blue label.  Bog standard
> early 1950s thin, brittle shellac pressing.  I've never seen another
> Capitol (aside from some of the 'Superflex' kiddie items) with a
blue
> label.  What's the story?  Are there any others, or is my copy a
> fluke?
>
> ----
> I've seen other Capitol titles circa 1950 by Red Norvo and Miles Davis
> pressed with blue labels.
>
> Dave W.
>
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