[78-L] Weems' ongoing Heartaches

[Stephen Davies]

Please help set the record straight.  I'm reading bits and pieces of this fabled story on the WWW which don't fit together.

Would you say that the following is the correct history of this tune?

Ted Weems, with Elmo Tanner on lips, recorded "Heartaches" for Bluebird in 1933 (cat# 5131-B, mx# 76847=1).
He then took his orchestra to Decca, and re-recorded "Heartaches" with Tanner in 1938 (cat# 2020-B, mx# DLA1444).
Decca then re-released "Heartaches" as the A-side in 1941, b/w "Oh, Monah".  (cat# 25017-A).
Weems then rejoined RCA Victor who re-released *OR* remade the Bluebird side as cat#20-2175 in 1947, when the song finally hit the jackpot.  Elmo Tanner rejoins the Weems orchestra as a result.

Was the 1947 Victor a remake or a re-release? and was it the cause or the result of a grassroots popularity for the song?

- Stephen D
in Calgary