[78-L] Ellington side...

[Steven C. Barr]

Okeh...the record is a red Columbia, which bears as a number "PHILCO-2!" I 
think these
were promo/demo records for Philco radio-phonographs c.1941...?! Anyway,one 
of the
two sides is by the "Brunswick Military Band" and it was issued thusly on 
Brunswick in
1940. I can't find the other side in the "Abrams Files"...it is Ellington, 
doing "A Lonely
Co-Ed" (his own tune) and the matrix is WM1040 (Mills' "Master Records" 
which were
by then issued on Brunswick with "m"-prefixed catalog numbers). So...can 
anyone tell me
if this side appeared on a very late Brunswick...and if so what catalog 
number?

AFAIK, there weren't any "m"-prefixed red Columbias...even though Columbia 
DID
replace Brunswick as the "flagship" label of the ARC-CBS operation! I'm 
wondering
if WM1040 happened to "fall through the cracks" and was thus NOT issued on 
either
Brunswick or Columbia (other than this PHILCO-2 record?)?!

Steven C. Barr