[78-L] Limited edition Miller

[David Weiner]

A few comments, Mike! 

The third one was the Army 
Air-Force Band, LPT-6702 and had a picture of a Air Force hat on clouds 
on the cover.  They eventually ran out of the padded covers for the AAF 
set and put it out in a box numbered LPM 6700 with yellow label 
pressings.   
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The "box" edition of LPM-6700 came out pretty early - I have a copy with the
shaded dog "silver print" labels.  AND a booklet. 

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  The fourth one "For the Very 
First Time" LPM 6100 was only a three-disc set, came out in 1959, and 
might not have been on 45s  It had a painting of Miller playing the 
trombone on the front cover which bled over to a painting of the band 
bus on the back.  It was the hardest one of any of them for me to get.  
I only got it about  5 years ago.  Although not a numbered "Limited 
Edition", I don't think they made any effort to make more of the padded 
covers or put it in a box after they ran out of the original run of the 
covers. 
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Don't think it ever was on 45 - would love to find a copy if it did!  I had
trouble finding my initial copy too - now copies are ALL OVER eBoing. 
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> The Artie Shaw 5 LP set from the mid-fifties is made up of
> these. Much of the remainder of what RCA took off the air turned up on
> various Reader's Digest CD sets in the eighties and nineties.
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The Artie Shaw 5-LP box is NOT all airchecks - it is three already-issued
Shaw LPs from 78s plus the live 2-LP "At the Blue Room/Café Rouge" set boxed
together, with a new coating of echo slathered on!
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Reader's Digest only issued the tiniest handful of tracks from the RCA line
check holdings - there are HUNDREDS of untouched band broadcasts in their
possession - the Buddha CD series of the late 90s issued, for the first
time, live material from this stash by Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Duke
Ellington, Sinatra/Dorsey and Miller. 

Dave W.