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But it is really hard to know. In 1934, Goodman was hardly a known musician
as far as the general public was concerned; neither was Holiday.

I can't imagine when he organized his own orchestra and recorded for
Columbia that those records sold very well either. In fact, those sessions
were paid for by Irving Mills since B.G. was recording his copyrights. There
was a B.G. Orchestra session for Melotone that wasn't even released under
his name.

Would the quantity pressed be on a card in the Sony archive? I remember that
press runs for Bessie Smith records were written on their respective cards.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Sean Miller <smille1 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> It is indeed a great record.  Rare?  I wouldn't say rare, but maybe scarce.
>  I have a really nice E+ copy on blue shellac that I bought at a phonograph
> show in Union Illinois five years ago for $20 even in a nice special blue
> Columbia sleeve from a pretty smart seller who knew what he had.  It was
> certainly worth it to me!  I don't know what price guides say it's worth,
> but I don't follow them much these days.
>
> Judging by the number of people on this list who have already said they
> have a copy, I'm sure more than 300 blue shellac pressings were pressed.
>
> Sean
>
>