[78-L] Capitol Compact 33s

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 11 14:35:16 PST 2010


I meant "take 4 has been reissued several times". The "sent to Canada" theory 
still makes sense to me, since it probably wasn't worth their while to recall 
pressings they'd sent out of the country, what with wartime restrictions on 
travel and shipping.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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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