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

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

The two catalog numbers not used in Victor’s Hot Jazz Classics series 
40-0138 and 40-0139 are shown on LOC Sound Collection as: 40-0138 Jack 
Teagarden’s Big Eight: Say It Simple/A Jam Session at Victor, and 
40-0139 Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtime Band: Relaxin’ at the Touro/I 
Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. According to the LOC listing, 
these are the only issues of the two Teagarden sides. Teagarden’s “Big 
Eight” was a designation used by HRS and on Victor 20-2458: St. Louis 
Blues/Blues After Hours. “Relaxin”...” was originally issued on 
Bluebird B-10506, and “Shimmy...” on Bluebird B-10532. The 16 Spanier 
Bluebird sides were issued on the original blue-and-gold label and then 
repressed on the dull war-time label. They were also issued in Victor’s 
20- dash series and in the U.K. in Gramophone’s in “9000” range. I have 
complete sets of both Bluebird pressings and the Gramophone pressings 
but not the Victor.