[78-L] re-issues

[David Lennick]

Julian Vein wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Thomas Stern wrote:
>>> What were the first 8 track per side LPs ?
>> Not claiming that these are the first, but RCA LPM 1364 (Duke Ellington: In a 
>> Mellotone) and LPM 1503 (Fats Waller: One Never Knows, Do One) have 8 tracks 
>> per side. Issued in 1956 and 1957 respectively. I don't know why I associated 
>> Grauer and Keepnews with these..they were producing RCA reissues, but on "X" 
>> and for the 10-volume alphabetical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
> 
>> dl
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> There was also the Muggsy Spanier Ragtimers on RCA LPM1295. Willis 
> Conover used to play this incessantly at the time. French RCA were 
> issuing 8 tracks per side on their "Horizons du Jazz" series, but not 
> sure when they started.
> 
>       Julian Vein

Also Tommy Dorsey "Tribute Vol. 1" (with no liner notes!) and Ellington "At His 
Very Best" (8 tracks side 1, equivalent side 2 which has Black Brown and 
Beige). Anything in the "Down Beat Jazz Milestone" series had 8 cuts per side, 
although the first Ellington I named didn't have that imprint.

dl