[78-L] A novice-y type Purple OKeh question

[Gregg Kimball]

I am glad you asked, and that David answered, because I had wondered the 
same thing. It also prompted a question.

Last night I was doing a CD compilation of Irish and French-Canadian stuff 
featuring accordion (I'm sure there's a joke there), and one of the tunes 
was "The Pigeon on the Gate" by O'Leary's Irish Minstrels from purple Okeh 
84145.  It actually sounds really good.  I had assumed this disc was a 
re-issue of Columbia 33353-F, but looking at the catalog number now, maybe 
it was also released on Vocalion?

Has anyone put the discographical information from any of the Columbia 
ethnic series on-line?

Gregg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] A novice-y type Purple OKeh question


>
> Andrea Walsh wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have recently (on a whim) been playing all my 78's that were issued on
>> Purple OKeh, and I was planning on posting them to my blog.  While
>> listening, I notice some are muddy sounding, or at least sort of 
>> far-away,
>> and others are really clear and the sound is much more defined.
>>
>> This may seem like a stupid novice type question, but what are the
>> differences?  Are some of these dubs and others original?  I have been
>> listening to everything from country and western swing to jazz and swing,
>> novelty, gospel, rhythm and blues and blues.
>>
>> I read what Rust has to say about the purple issue OKehs in the American
>> Record Label Book, that the revived OKeh series of 1940 and after have
>> normal CBS series masters, but what does that mean?  Is, for instance the
>> recording of Bessie Smith doing "Gimme A Pigfoot" (OK 6893) a dub of a
>> Vocalion and say, Blind Boy Fuller doing "Step It Up And Go" (OK 05476) 
>> an
>> original?
>>
>> How can one tell an "original" recording, if there is such a thing?
>>
>> I am confuzzled.
>>
>> Thanks in advance--
>>
>> Andrea
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