[78-L] First vocal recording of Temptation Rag

[Craig Ventresco]

I still am not sure that the Columbia is the earliest vocal version of
Temptation Rag...There were other contemporary issues of it, such as the
Collins on Princess No S 1052.Yes, it's very scarce, but still
contemporanious.

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:

> Thus all dates in the Abrams files are inaccurate at this point (early
> 1910), except the
> 26 Mar 1910 date for mx 04394 by Elida Morris (not 28/3 as misquoted by
> Steven).
> The June 1910 release date confirms that a quick release took 2-3 months
> from the
> recording date. Though it seems they were able to release Christmas issues
> within
> ca. 1 month.
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
> >>> On 9/3/2010 8:47 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> > It may be added that Columbia issued monthly catalog supplements at the
> time,
> > and these will list A-826 as new issue.
> > So the question is: which supplement does?
> >
> > Han Enderman
>
> June 1910. as I posted to ARSCList a couple of hours ago:
> Tim Brooks gives a release date as from the monthly supplement of June
> 1910.  He does not give a recording date for this matrix, but several
> just before it do have dates in late March 1910.  He shows two takes of
> this, an unmarked take which is on Aeritino D 678, Oxford 4396, and
> United A 826, and -2 which is on Columbia A 826..
>
> Mike Biel
> -------------
> From: "Birgit Lotz Verlag" <Birgit-Lotz-Verlag at gmx.de>
> > Is there any way to find out when Columbia A826, Arthur Collins
> "Temptaion
> > Rag" (mx) was released?
> >
> The "Abrams File" (COLA.TXT btw) gives the matrix for the Collins side as
> 4396=2. It cites the
> other side of A826 (by Elida Morris, whomever she was?) as  matrix 4394=1,
> having been recorded
> on 3/28/1910 (March 28). Given the fact that the two matrices are only
> separated by two...the
> Collins side may have been cut the same day (or a day or two later?); this
> in turn would
> seem to suggest that the Collins side was cut sometime between March 28 and
> April 1, 1910?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
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