[78-L] A strange Brunswick...

[David Lennick]

[For some reason, this message hasn't gone through..apologies if it appears 
twice, hosannas if it shows up even once.]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> While looking through my "shellac archive" and trying to list my holdings,
> I ran across this...?!
> 
> It's a copy of Brunswick 6527...a Duke Ellington disc; HOWEVER,
> this one has the SAME "side" on both physical sides of the record!
> Both sides are "Drop Me Off At Harlem"...B13081A! I haven't
> yet verified this duplication by playing it...but both have the same
> matrix in the "wax," and other visible items are duplicated as well!
> 
> Anybody have any idea why/how such a disc was pressed? It seems
> too early for jukebox use?! Also, there is nothing non-standard about
> or on the labels?!
> 
> It seems to me to be unlikely to be pressed thusly in error...although
> it could have been some sort of test item...?! Has anyone out there
> in Radio-land run across a similar record of that vintage?!
> 
> ...stevenc

Yes! OKeh 41538, Louis Armstrong, You Can Depend on Me..same thing both sides.
Same matrix and take, but different stamper numbers (2-A-3, 2-A-4).

How come this?

dl