[78-L] AIR RAID, was Re: Bessie Smith Album

[David Lennick]

Okay, gang..C-4 isn't listed in the October 1940 catalog, but it IS listed in 
the "First Revised Edition", February 1940. And C-5 ISN'T listed..it goes from 
C-4 to C-6. And get this..the numbers of the original issue of Air Raid are 
50382-D--S-50385-D. Selling price $4.00..so much for "deluxe". Their 
Shakespeare albums were going for a buck and a half a disc. Obviously the 
signed version of C-5 was the deluxe version. So how do I happen to have a copy 
of Disc 1 with a pre-CBS gold "full range" label on 69353-D? When did that 
sneak out?

This catalog lists all the titles in each album if anyone needs them (C-1/3 and 
C-9, the others being Shakespeare and Air Raid).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 
> 
> The Columbia Supplement which lists all of the records "issued since the
> last Columbia catalog of December 1937" thru Sept 1939 lists each of the
> pre-C-11 albums as "Special Album" except for the Bessie album which has
> its C-8 number.  The loose-leaf sheet dated 9/1/40 from the Columbia
> Numerical lists the albums thru C-27 minus the C-4 limited edition of
> Air Raid which also was not in the Sept 1939 supplement catalog. but
> according to dl was in the full Oct 1940 catalog.  As we have seen, the
> pre C-11 albums were issued without numbers, and the Bessie album came
> out a about full year before Air Raid was aired on Oct 27, 1938.  I have
> not found a review of the Air Raid album this week in order to estimate
> its release date in absence of Masterworks , but I did find a review of
> it in Time magazine during my dissertation research.  I have the record
> numbers of all of the discs in the albums and will try to tabulate them
> -- but will send this posting out first. 
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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