[78-L] Original 1926 Columbia Test Pressing - Baby Doll

[Jim Shulman]

Amazingly, nobody has commented on the video postings that this is a
later-than-1926 pressing!
He's still pursuing that fiction.

That's not to say it's not a fascinating record, and perhaps a pressing of
an unissued take (a Bessie Smith expert would have to confirm or deny that.)
It's also likely desirable to a collector.  However, it sure wasn't pressed
in '26!

If there were a label for custom pressings (or test pressings) in 1926 that
identified the company, it would have been called the "Columbia Phonograph
Company", not the "Columbia Recording Corporation".  

I've owned some Ellington test pressings from the 1940s with this same
label.

Jim Shulman
Wynnewood, PA


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Sean Miller
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Original 1926 Columbia Test Pressing - Baby Doll

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't think this is an "original" 1926
test by any means.  Columbia tests from the 1920s didn't use that label at
all, but a much plainer one.  I've seen plenty of late 1930s, 1940s and
1950s era tests on the label type of your Smith test, even many of earlier
material like this, so my guess is that you have a later era (late 1930s or
1940s) test pressing on shellac from the original master, not a 1920s test
pressing at all.  I'm not saying it isn't a cool piece by any means, just
that it's a later test pressing.

Sean

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Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 11:55 AM
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Subject: [78-L] Original 1926 Columbia Test Pressing - Baby Doll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLTRUwskzC4 

Bessie Smith Original Test Pressing from May 4, of 1926. 

An advance peek at the Actual Record that will be posted for Sale on
Saturday. 
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