[78-L] Kansas City Jazz (Decca DL-8044) 78 rpm set info?

Thu Oct 7 23:02:34 PDT 2010

Thanks for the listings David!! I'll try to hunt the 40's & 50's versions of 
this down on Ebay. Already have a want it now post on the site so maybe somebody 
might see that.

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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Kansas City Jazz (Decca DL-8044) 78 rpm set info?

18121A     PETE JOHNSON'S BAND     627 STOMP     68332=A     (A-214 - 1)     - 
    11/11/40     Pete 

Johnson - Dave Dexter
18121B     JOE TURNER & HIS FLYCATS     PINEY BROWN BLUES     68333=A     
DE29711 

(A214-2)     -     11/11/40     JOE TURNER-PETE JOHNSON
18122A     MARY LOU WILLIAMS and her Kansas City Seven     BABY DEAR     
68365=AA 

(A-214-3)     -     11/18/40     Bennie Moten - Thamon Hayes
18122B     MARY LOU WILLIAMS and her Kansas City Seven     HARMONY BLUES     
68366=AA 

(A-214-4)     -     11/18/40     Bennie Moten
18123A     ANDY KIRK & His CLOUDS OF JOY     THE COUNT     68317=A     (A-214-5) 
    - 

11/7/40     Thomas Gordon
18123B     ANDY KIRK & His CLOUDS OF JOY     TWELFTH STREET RAG     68318=A 
(A-214-6)     -     11/7/40     EUDAY L. BOWMAN - JAMES SUMNER
18124     HOT LIPS PAGE & HIS BAND     LAFAYETTE     68334=A     (A-214)     - 
    11/11/40 

(KANSAS CITY JAZZ)
18124     HOT LIPS PAGE & HIS BAND     SOUTH     68335=A     (A-214)     -     
11/11/40     (KANSAS 

CITY JAZZ)
18125A     COUNT BASIE & HIS ORCH     GOOD MORNING BLUES (v. James Rushing) 
62511=B     DE1965B     (214-9)     8/9/37     Eddie Durham
18125B     COUNT BASIE & HIS ORCH     DOGGIN' AROUND     63920=A     (A-214-10) 
    - 

6/6/38     HERSCHEL EVANS
18126     EDDIE DURHAM & HIS BAND     MOTEN'S SWING     68337=A     (A-214)     
-     11/11/40 

(KANSAS CITY JAZZ)
18126     EDDIE DURHAM & HIS BAND     I WANT A LITTLE GIRL     68336=A     
(A-214)     - 

11/11/40     (KANSAS CITY JAZZ)

From Ty's site: http://settlet.fateback.com/Dec18000.htm
Home page: http://settlet.fateback.com/index.html

Actually, it looks as if these sides were all recorded for this set and these 
ARE the original issues.

dl

On 10/8/2010 12:50 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> Whenever you have time Dave. Ty's site? I don't know about it.....
>
>
>
>
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 11:22:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kansas City Jazz (Decca DL-8044) 78 rpm set info?
>
> Of course this still doesn't answer your other question, about the original
> issue numbers. That's for another day. Or maybe they're cross referenced on
> Ty's site..takes too long and the presence of 2 or 3 volumes of the Decca 
Books
> to look them up that way.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/8/2010 12:18 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>      From the 1942 catalog (which saved me going down the hall and getting 
the
>> album down):
>>
>> 18121: 627 Stomp (Pete Johnson)/Piney Brown Blues (Joe Turner)
>> 18122: Baby Dear/Harmony Blues (Mary Lou Williams)
>> 18123: The Count/Twelfth Street Rag (Andy Kirk)
>> 18124: South/Lafayette (Hot Lips Page)
>> 18125: Good Morning Blues/Doggin' Around (Count Basie)
>> 18126: Moten's Swing/I Want a Little Girl (Eddie Durham)
>>
>> One of many great anthology albums Decca issued in the early 40s. Dave Dexter
>> Jr wrote about instigating that series when he was still too young to vote.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 10/8/2010 12:09 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> I've got a mid 60's lp issue of this which was originally put out in the
> 50's.
>>> It's 12 tracks have Count Basie, Eddie Durham, Pete Johnson, Andy Kirk, Hot
>>> Lips
>>> Page, Joe Turner and Mary Lou Williams as the artists with all the 
recordings
>>> made sometime in the 30's for Decca. Have never found the original 50's lp
> nor
>>> the 78 rpm set of this record which was also issued in the 50's. I just
> wonder
>>> if they are really that rare or have I just been unlucky in my hunting for
>> them
>>> all these years. Sometime I might dig that album up then post the track
>>> listings
>>> with the artists so that someone here could give me the original 30's Decca
>>> record numbers&  tell me which track is an A side or a B side plus whats on
>> the
>>> other side of the original 30's issue records. Maybe one day I might be able
>> to
>>> track them all down. Not that I'm keen about any type of jazz (I'm really
> not)
>>> but some of the tracks on that lp are pretty good so finding the 50's 78 rpm
>>> reissue discs or better yet the original 1930's issues might be fun!!
>>>
>>> The only one I know about is Decca 18125-B which is Doggin Around by Count
>>> Basie
>>> &  His Orchestra with no idea whats on the A side as I've never seen that
>>> record.
>>> Anybody know?
>>>
>>> I dug up the record&  here is the track listing.
>>>
>>> South
>>>
>>> Lafayette
>>> Oran Hot Lips Page
>>>
>>> Good Morning Blues (Vocal by James Bushing)
>>>
>>> Doggin Around
>>> Count Basie&  His Orchestra
>>>
>>> Moten's Swing
>>>
>>> I Want A Little Girl
>>> Eddie Durham&  His Band
>>>
>>> 627 Stomp
>>> Pete Johnsons Band
>>>
>>> Piney Brown Blues
>>> Joe Turner&  His Fly Cats
>>>
>>> Baby Dear
>>>
>>> Harmony Blues
>>> Mary Lou Williams&  Her Kansas City Seven
>>>
>>> The Count
>>>
>>> Twelfth Street Rag
>>> Andy Kirk&  His Clouds Of Joy.
>>>
>>> Just found the 50's LP issue on Ebay. Yay!! Now to hunt down the 50's 78 rpm
>>> reissue set plus the original 30's 78's.....
>>>
>
>
>
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