[78-L] Capital Series

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Mar 3 19:34:20 PST 2009


I'm pretty sure I've seen that blue label elsewhere, in an album set..possibly 
Yma Sumac's second one.

dl

Glenn Longwell wrote:
> 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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