[78-L] Ellington side...

[David Lennick]

Further info..Ellington's WM masters began to appear on Columbia while some 
were still being issued on Brunswick. The last Brunswick issue is 8411 (WM 
1032A & 1041A). Matrices WM 1062/3, 1091/5, 1106/8, 1120/1, 1135/8 all appeared 
on Columbia.

dl

David Lennick wrote:
> 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 
>>