[78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?

[Harold Aherne]

There is a lot of variation in late '35/early '36 Columbias; one of the last all-blue
(i.e. blue shellac, blue label with "Columbia" *not* in all-caps) that I've seen offered
for auction was a Jay Randell disc, either 3112-D or 3113-D, recorded 27 Dec. 1935.
 
The offerings on Columbia's -D series during 1936 are an interesting mix: many
British dance band sides, some material concurrently issued on Brunswick (like
the Fred Astaire discs) and lots of Hawaiian bands. The Mills Blue Rhythm Band
and a few discs by Frank Froeba and Herbie Kaye were the main dance band 
material not (AFAIK) issued elsewhere, at least Stateside. Does anyone know who
Bart Woodyard was? His band had issues on 3149-D and 3150-D, and I've never seen 
them offered anywhere...I don't recall his band being listed in ADBD, and some of the 
sides look Hawaiian-oriented, but I don't know for sure.
 
-Harold
 

--- On Wed, 3/18/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?
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Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 7:29 PM

I thought they all did, at least after December 1932.  The return to
black discs came at different times, as the various plants used up
their supplies of blue blanks.