[78-L] Bluebird labels

[Michael Biel]

Cary Ginell wrote:
> There's one that precedes the buff label as well. It has an almost unreadable black print on blue background and was only good for a handful of issues. I own one of these, but they are rare, rare, rare! I believe the numbers go from 1820 to 1853 (if I understand the Victor Master Book correctly). 

The Victor Master Book is all screwed up on the early Bluebird, Sunrise, 
Electradisc, Timely Tunes, etc. because of Brian Rust's damn fool 
asinine insistence of not including Victor prefixes.  Remember, some of 
these are 8-inch discs, and I dare you to figure out which master is 
which from the book.  I've looked at the sheets at BMG and you need the 
prefixes.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


> They were issued in 1933. This is the one issue that I have.
>
> 1826  Dwight Butcher (aka "Hank Hall") Frivolous Frisco Fan
>         Bob Miller (aka "Slick Palmer") Good Old Beer
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>   
>> From: jcenderman at solcon.nl
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 05:01:09 +0200
>> Subject: [78-L] Bluebird labels
>>
>> No, the buff BB label (yellow/blue) precedes the blue staff label.
>> An even earlier version of the buff label has a different manufacturer's name along
>> the lower rim (RCA Victor Company).
>> The issue pictured (B-6450 Double Check Stomp) also exists on an even later blue label,
>> without staff and with double rings (and still mentioning RCA Manufacturing Co.).
>>
>> And may I remark that there are too many images on the Dooji pages. To consult a page,
>> I have to download a large group of label images. Yearly pages may be more useful.
>>
>> Han Enderman
>> ===
>>     
>>>>> 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