[78-L] Bunny Berigan Spanish Town

Scott Wenzel scott at mosaicrecords.com
Mon Jun 8 10:48:14 PDT 2009


The metal parts for "In A Little Spanish Town" yielded two takes. From our
Mosaic set of Berigan, I included this note at the end of the session. 
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BUNNY BERIGAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA -1 / BUNNY BERIGAN AND HIS BOYS -2: Bunny
Berigan (tp), Red Jessup (tb), Toots Mondello (cl, as), Babe Russin (ts),
Joe Bushkin (p), Eddie Condon (g), Mort Stulmaker (b), George Wettling (d),
Art Gentry (vcl).
							NYC, November 23,
1936
20315-2	That Foolish Feeling (AG-vcl) -1		Br 7784
20316-1	Where Are You? (AG-vcl) -1			      -
20317-1	In A Little Spanish Town -2			previously unissued
20317-2	In A Little Spanish Town -2			SE 5004-S

Note: Discographies list 20315-1 and 20316-2 for Br 7784, but they are dubs
of the issued takes shown above. Some reissues list matrix 20317-1 but they
are dubs of -2; this Mosaic set is the first to commercially release
20317-1. Personnel confirmed by the Brunswick ledgers. The Special Edition
78 was released on May 17, 1948.
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I would be interested to know if a Canadian Columbia did in fact release -1.


Best
Scott Wenzel 




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