[78-L] Columbia sets (was: Bessie Smith album)

[David Lennick]

Just to add to the confusion, I don't recall the "limited edition" album having 
gold labels..or Full Range labels..

David Lennick wrote:
> I wonder if the autographed edition was C-4 but not numbered as such? I don't 
> have it and my notes with the transfer might have said C-5 because that was the 
> only number I found, checking in catalogs at the time.
> 
> Re my note about dates..is it possible that it was originally broadcast in 
> February, with Orson Welles, and rebroadcast without him (busy with Mercury 
> Theater stuff by then) in October and issued from the later version? And as 
> noted, even without intros and extros and music, it's still over thirty minutes.
> 
> dl
> 
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> One of my sets of Air Raid has sides 1 & 2 with gold labels
>>> (like the Mercury sets), Columbia Full Range Recording.
>>> No album number on it, but disc # is 69353-D, same as on
>>> CBS labels in C-5. "Sold in complete sets only."
>> I wonder if this might be a label for the limited autographed edition
>> C-4?  I hope to see what is in R&H this week.  I should also look thru
>> the Rigler Deutsch label picture films.  If I can't find something like
>> it, I will probably need a color scan.  Do any of your sets have a
>> number on the spine?