[78-L] Sidney Bechet's Bluebird recording of "Strange Fruit"

[Royal Pemberton]

Erm....don't you mean D1XX-XXXX and such like are after-the-fact?  E1 means
1951....

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> > Rust gives Bechet's Strange Fruit on Vic 27-0127 only, plus some European
> > HMVs.
> > In Jazz Directory, v.1 (1949) it is still listed as unissued.
> > I do not have a 78 label image of it, but all available images in this
> > 78rpm 27-0xxx series  (range 27-0114 - 27-157) are
> > the white "RCA Victor / Record Prevue / coming attractions" label, and
> all
> > are (re)issues of much earlier recordings.
> > 27-0140 is Jacquet's Black Velvet, recd 6 April 1949.
> > Evidently the 78s were only for radio promotion (not for sale).
> > In "Days Beyond Recall" (how appropriate for Bechet research; also not
> > released at the time of recording),
> > this was discussed on the list. The commercial issues were in a 42-
> series
> > at the time.
> >
> > Thus the orig. issue is 45rpm RCA 27-0127 (in box WPT-31) or 10" LP
> > LPT-22, both called "Sidney Bechet", and
> > issued in the Treasury of Immortal Performances series.
> > The LP mxs on label are E1VL-3416/17, but the 78s have earlier mxs. The
> 45
> > single has prefix D1VW (guessed from
> > a bad image). Can the 78 or 45 be dated more accurately, and were the
> > singles issued before the LP?
> > Or are the HMVs the first release?
> >
> RCA matrix numbers with "E1" prefixes are "after the fact" numbers,
> assigned
> after
> RCA converted to the later date-coded numbers. The "E" is 1940's, and thus
> the "E1"
> indicates 1941; this is not the original number, since RCA was using the
> zero-prefixed
> numbers in 1941...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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