[78-L] Silent Night

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Sat Jan 9 19:24:48 PST 2010


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
>I just had a look on Tyrone's site, and found the source of the earlier
> question: 19823 has the same selections as 17164, with 'Hark the
> herald.....' shown as matrix BVE.11120-4 and a recording date of 16 
> October
> 1925 (recorded 14 years to the day after the acoustic recording) whilst
> 'Silent night' is shown with the same matrix number and recording date
> (11791-1, 26 March 1912) as for 17164.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> So the Elsie Baker side of 19823 is acoustic??
>
No...19823 would have been the electrical remake of the earlier acoustic
side; as such, it would have carried the same matrix number as its earlier
acoustic version...but a MUCH higher take number!

Steven C. Barr 




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