[78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

[Royal Pemberton]

My dad's copy of Capitol 159 is a black label disc with the only take I've
ever known of it, the one on the 'Greatest Hits' LP and elsewhere.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> I've heard that as well, but every copy I've ever acquired has the tenor
> sax
> solo. As I say, they may have just dumped all those pressings in Canada,
> because I've had it at least 4 times and Canada got imported pressings
> until
> 1949. Does anyone have it on black label with the piano solo? Purple label,
> yes.
>
> Capitol or MacGregor was apparently pretty lax about labelling takes on the
> lacquers.
>
> Lord sez:
>
> 112    Eager beaver (take 3) (sk arr)    Cap 159 (first pressing only)
> 112    Eager beaver (take 4) (sk arr)    Cap 159, 903, 15192, F15439,
> CDF/H/T-190, SN66027,
>         T/DT/SM-2327, Cap (Can)C-134, Cap (E)LC6517,
>         CW ST-1047, V Disc 285, Ajax C-653, BOMR 81-7572,
>         Franklin Mint 57, MFP 5607, Cap CDP7-97350-2 [CD],
>         (Jap)TOCJ-5651 [CD], Cap CDMID-166219 [CD]
>
> So it may be that there are "correct" issues of 159. I don't think I've
> ever
> seen one, and since Take 3 has been reissued several times just on 78, it's
> not
> something I'd have looked for.
>
> dl
>
> Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > Let me get this clear. Are you saying that the take with the tenor sax
> > playing the melody instead of the piano is common? This runs counter to
> > every Kenton historian I'm aware of. My direct source is the liner notes
> for
> > the Kenton Mosaic box.
> >
> > I just want to be sure.
> >
> > Jeff Sultanof
> >
> >
> >
> >> I suspect that this is another one of those myths..or else all the
> "wrong"
> >> pressings were shipped to Canada. It's very common.
> >>
> >> dl
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