[78-L] re-issues

Bertrand CHAUMELLE chaumelle at orange.fr
Sun Jul 5 01:42:46 PDT 2009


To jukebox operators.

BC
Le 4 juil. 09, à 22:11, Taylor Bowie a écrit :

>
> I think there is some crappy cut 10" version of the 12" Berigan "I 
> Can't Get
> Started"  which to me is even more stoopid than a shortened  "Sing, 
> Sing,
> Sing."  Again,  must have been somebody at Victor who thought such a 
> version
> would sell...but to whom?
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 1:07 PM
> Subject: [78-L] re-issues
>
>
> Reading the colourful discussion about re-issues reminded me of a 
> record I
> have which doesn't make any sense at all. It is a 10 inch re-issue of 
> "Sing,
> Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman. It's on the "Swing Classic" label and is
> simply a truncated version of the 12 inch recording. I don't 
> understand why
> anyone who wanted the piece would want to save a quarter or whatever 
> to buy
> this shorter version. I'm sure there are probably other 12 inch 
> recordings
> which were similarly released but I don't know of any. I have run into 
> some
> Decca sets, (like "Song of Norway"), which were subsequently released 
> in 10
> inch versions but I think they did some groove squeezing so that all 
> the
> music was on the smaller records. I'm not saying this because I've 
> compared
> the records but, if I recall, there was some indication on the label of
> these being longer playing records.
>
> db
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