[78-L] Canadian Bluebird

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> ODP lists BB B-9042 as last US BB (Jazz Gillum, 30 Jul 42). At the time BB 
> issued race & country only.
Not entirely true; BB also issued "pop" material in its B11xxx series.
> Wilf Carter's B-8983 was recorded 16 Dec 41, and thus released 1942, which 
> agrees with the
> release guide in Barr (B-8950 1/42).
> Another US BB from this Carter session is B-9032.
> Other Carter titles did not appear in the B-8000/9000 series, but were 
> issued in the succeeding
> 33-0500 series (Barr gives 11/42 as first release date) or in the Canadion 
> 55-3200 series.
>
> Carter's 16 December 1941 titles appeared on:
> B-4734/35/38/40 and 55-3201/02/09 (13 titles together) and some were 
> issued in the US on
> B-8983 & 9032 and on 33-0505 and later issues.
> I would guess that the Canadian B-4700 series was replaced mid or late 
> 1942 by the 55-3200 series.
>
There is a fairly complicated set of numeric sequences used on Canadian BB; 
this is further
complicated by the fact the different groups of numbers were used for 
Francophone or
Anglophone issues. Sadly, I havr hopelessly buried my copy of my DG; the 
data was
taken from a large group of BB(C) supplements covering 1942-49. B47xx was an
Anglophone group. And, as noted, these series were replaced by the 55-32xx 
(Anglo)
series.
> Why La Riviere's records (B-4685/86) aren't in the July 1942 supplement is 
> not clear.
> Forgotten? Did they find some remaining stock or did they repress a few in 
> 1943?
> Considering the number of Canadian issues, it seems they released ca. 2 
> records in a month.
>
> The last B-4700s known to me is:
> B-4742 Hank (Snow), Lonesome Blue Yodel. Like B-4741 a repressing of his 
> first record.
> Is this the last release in the series?
>
If/when I can dig out my data, I could tell you more!

Steven C. Barr