[78-L] Bessie Smith album

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Wossamatta all you guys! The Bessie Smith album is C-8.
> C-1 is Tango Album No. 1
> C-2 is Tango Album No. 2
> C-3 is Rumba and Congo Album
> C-4 is the first issue of Air Raid, which no living person has ever seen
> C-5 is the second issue of Air Raid
> C-6 is Merchant of Venice
> C-7 is Twelfth Night
> C-9 is European Dance Album
> C-10 is Julius Caesar
>
> This would put the Bessie Smith album in 1938
>
I think I own at least one of these final *-D records. It was issued on the
last blue label...and then as well on the red label, but still bearing the 
old
*-D catalog numbers. Columbia introduced the red label starting at
35200 (or 201?) early in 1939...!

Steven C. Barr