[78-L] McKinney's Cotton Pickers

[David Lennick]

Victor HJ 4, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, is all master pressings in the Canadian 
issue, as are (I believe) all the albums in this series, even when they're dubs 
in the US issues. But one side, Blues Sure Have Got Me, is an unissued master. 
Just curious whether it's a dub in the American edition..and how Canada 
happened to have original parts for it. I wonder whether they were on file from 
the 20s or if Victor sent originals to Canada while using dubbed masters at 
home or.....? The remaining sides have the original catalog numbers rubbed out 
(and some of the VEs removed), so the stampers must have been used before.

The unissued side also lacks that little ring just inside the last groove, a 
characteristic common to previously unused stampers pressed in the 40s.

Hmmmm?

dl