[78-L] RCA 40-xxxx Series [was RCA 44- Dash Series]

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

In the 40-dash series there are no 40-0100 or 40-0101. The series 
beings with 40-0102 with a Louis Armstrong album (HJ-1) in the Victor 
Hot Jazz Classics series. HJ-2 is Benny Goodman (40-0106-40-0109), HJ-3 
Lionel Hampton (40-0110-40-0113), HJ-4 McKinney’s Cotton Pickers 
(40-0114-40-0117), HJ-5 Jelly Roll Morton (40-0118-40-0121), HJ-6 
Quintet of the Hot Club of France (40-0122-40-0125), HJ-7 Bunk Johnson 
and His New Orleans Band (40-0126-40-0129), HJ-8 Esquire’s 1946 Award 
Winners Hot Jazz (12-inch, 40-4001- 40-4002), HJ-9 New 52nd Street Jazz 
(40-0130-40-0133), HJ-10 Esquire’s All American Hot Jazz, Volume 2 
(40-0134-40-0137), HJ-11 Girls in Jazz featuring America’s Greatest 
Feminine Jazz Musicians (40-0144- 40-0147), HJ-12 New Orleans Jazz 
featuring Irving Fazola and his Dixieland Band (40-0140- 40-0143). 
There is a break in the HJ series numbering of 40-0138 and 40-0139. 
Other 40- dash 12-inch issues: 40-4000 Metronome All Stars, 40-4003 
Fats Waller. I have these albums and they are all detailed in my book 
on Bootleg & Reissue 78s.