[78-L] Jay Records 10-inch LP - WC Fields

[Al Haug]

It seems pretty obvious that someone read the matrix number "MMI" as a Roman
numeral and somehow it ended up with it as "2001" in Arabic numerals.

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:00:56 -0400
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jay Records  10-inch LP - Jack Meltzer - Merit
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The Etting was definitely issued, although my copy doesn't have the jacket.
Very echoey. But then so was Columbia's release. And my copy of the Fields
has NO number on the jacket and is numbered WCF 1 on the labels. Neither
jacket nor labels say anything except "Temperance Lecture", ignoring "The
Day I Drank a Glass of Water" and the sides aren't even joined. Matrix
numbers are MM1-LP and MM2-LP.

I didn't know until now that this was Meltzer's label! Or was only the
Fields issue from him, given the matrix numbers?

dl

On 10/15/2010 6:50 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> Anyone know of any JAY RECORDS releases other than the following ???
>
> 2001 (also listed as WCF-1)  W.C.Fields Temperance Lecture
> 3002 John McCormack  Irish Songs
> 3003 Norman MacKaye sings ballads of Scotland's Bard Robert Burns
> 3006 The Original Memphis Five
> 3007 John McCormack  Love Songs
> 3010 Ethel Waters
> 3013 Gwilym Williams sings Welsh Folk Songs
>
> Has anyone seen a copy of the Fields release with the alternate catalog
number?
>
> I've not found much on the web, other than an article in BILLBOARD about
an injunction sought by COLUMBIA to suppress a proposed RUTH ETTING release.
> Was that album actually issued?
>
> Thanks!
> Best wishes, Thomas.