[78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs

[David Lennick]

I suppose it's possible that some country sides were paired acoustical + 
electrical but I doubt there'd have been many (any?) others on Victor. On 
Columbia, yes..probably on Brunswick as well. And many acousticals were kept in 
print well into the 30s on Victor and Columbia, in their original couplings 
(even on Blue Wax on Columbia). One definite Columbia acoustical/electrical 
combo I know of is 14079, Bessie Smith: You've Been a Good Old Wagon (January 
14/25) b/w Dixie Flyer Blues (May 15/25).

And yes there are copies of Victor 35822 which use the acoustical second half 
of Rhapsody in Blue instead of the electrical. I thought this happened only on 
Canadian pressings c. 1941 but it turns up on some US pressings as well.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> I erred when I said that there were some - I just recall a couple of anomalies reported on 78-L. But with the catalog, it would be interesting to find others! I know that I have a Montgomery Ward 78 with spirituals on each side: one acoustic and one electrical. Both come from Victor masters. I'll report on that one later tonight or tomorrow.
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> Cary Ginell
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>> From: dnjchi78 at live.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:03:57 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs
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>> In my limited 60 years of record collecting, I don't recall any Victor disc combining an acoustic on one side with an electrical on the other. (I know, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue did, erroneously.) Were there some?
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>> Don Chichester
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>>> From: soundthink at live.com
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:19:28 -0800
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs
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>>> I'll check it out when I get home. From a cursory look, it doesn't appear that the catalog shows both paired sides of specific records. You have to know the titles, since they're all listed alphabetically. I didn't check to see if there were artist sections interspersed with the titles, as catalogs usually included.
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>>> Cary Ginell
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>>>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:09:55 -0700
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs
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>>>> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
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>>>>> . . . the subject has come up fairly often about which electrical sides
>>>>> were paired with acoustic sides. . . . Many Victor records paired acoustic
>>>>> with electrical recordings. This catalog will document all existing
>>>>> issues of this nature to that time. Cary Ginell
>>>> REALLY??!! I thought when this subject came up it was determined that
>>>> the only example found was the promotional Canadian issue that Steve
>>>> Barr detailed. I know that Steve has this catalog -- him showing it to
>>>> us is in Leah's outtakes -- so I would think he would have gone thru it
>>>> to see about American examples.
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>>>> Can you give us a "preview" of this catalog by giving us some examples
>>>> of these mixed issues mentioned in it?
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>>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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