[78-L] Ellington side...

[David Lennick]

It was issued as Columbia 35240, backed with Bouncing Buoyancy. Pretty sure I 
have it. I don't have that Philco issue but I have 3 or 4 others..you first 
showed me a Gene Autry disc in that series years ago. I have an album for them. 
Anyone know if they were given away by Philco dealers or how they were distributed?

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> 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 
>