[78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc

[David Lennick]

L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/7/10 10:22:04 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> stevenc at interlinks.net writes:
> 
> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: <l78rpm at aol.com>
>> I believe Rust  listed remakes if they had been assigned new matrix  
>> numbers.
>>
> Which is something that Victor rarely...if  EVER...did...?! Their electric 
> versions
> kept the original matrix  number, but carried additional takes...!
> 
> I believe they assigned new numbers if the accompaniment was  different or 
> if there were minor arrangement changes.  It didn't happen  frequently.  
>  
> pc
> 

It happened if the same performers recorded the same music in a different 
configuration. One probable example (don't have the info here to check) is 
Rachmaninoff playing his 2nd Concerto with Stokowski and the Philadelphia 
Orchestra..9 acoustical sides (one of them a ten-incher), 10 electrical sides. 
I think some other Stokowski remakes required more sides and thus would have 
had new numbers.

dl