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

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Wed Oct 13 17:24:34 PDT 2010


From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Available images of 244 front & booklet show 'Tenor' printed above 
> Saxophobia
> and subtitle is ... Tenor Saxophone Solos.
> Is there another cover/booklet title?
> Decca gives several "names" to its series.
> 244/246/251/255 are Popular series, but then it changes:
> 249/308/311/324 are 18M series (18000s), and 283/295 are 23M.
> An earlier issue like 113 states 18.000 series on front.
>
The 18### series was often called "Personality" (series) on their
(usually red) labels. As well, it was Decca's practice to have different
prices for each of its three series; the more expensive series were
used for "popular" sides over the years, rather than simply re-pricing
their records.

Steven C. Barr 



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