[78-L] Memories of you

[Royal Pemberton]

Actually the one you have with 'RCA Victor Company Inc' is the earlier
disc.  That was the company's name 1930-1935, 'RCA Manufacturing Corp.' was
from 1935 onward.  But different pressing plants changed labels only as
their stocks ran out, so it's likely one plant still had the RCA Victor
labels left to use up whilst another had a supply of new RCA Manufacturing
labels in place.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:08 AM, David Palmquist <davidpalmquist at dccnet.com
> wrote:

>
> Julian Vein asked
> What possessed Bluebird to reissue Duke Ellington's "Memories of
> You"?  One of Duke's dullest despite a freakish vocal by Dick Robertson.
>
> I suspect Memories of You was re-released because it was very
> commercial recording.  The crooning and very sweet playing is mood
> music and it appeals to a market that may not always care for hot
> jazz, and it is perhaps suitable to play during a romantic dinner.
>
> You have to give vocalist Dick Robertson credit for hitting that high
> note so accurately each time.
>
> In Duke Ellington, A Listener's Guide, at pp 39-40, Eddie Lambert wrote :
>
> "The band was back in New York and the change of studio may in part
> account for the poorer overall sound of the ensemble.  The second
> chorus of Memories of You ... has an odd bit of experimental scoring
> involving Whetsol (sic), Tizol, Hodges' soprano sax and the and over
> bowed bass, but the rest of the performance is easily forgotten."
>
> I have blue and yellow Bluebird labels on the 1930-1932 page of the
> Dooji Collection. .  Go here:
> http://ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/DoojiCollection/DoojiCollection.htm
>
> You can listen to the recording as well if you go to the Ellington
> page of the French "Jazz Old Time On Line" or "Old Time Jazz Online" site:
> http://www.jazz-on-line.com/Duke_Ellington.htm
>
> A bit of trivia:
> The blue label with the music staff on it, the first one I show,
> seems to have been an early release since it doesn't have the Not
> Licenced for Radio Broadcast warning on it.  It's intereresting that
> this Bluebird label shows the record was made by RCA Manufacturing
> Co. Inc., while the Victor label right above it, You're Lucky To Me,
> recorded in the same session , was put out by RCA Victor Company, Inc.
>
> David in Delta
>
>
>
> At 08:04 2010-05-14, you wrote:
>
> >Message: 21
> >Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 09:52:34 +0100
> >From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> >Subject: [78-L] Duke's "Memories of You"
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> >What possessed Bluebird to reissue Duke Ellington's "Memories of You"?
> >One of Duke's dullest despite a freakish vocal by Dick Robertson.
> >
> >       Julian Vein
> >
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