[78-L] Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on ColumbiaBlue Shellac

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

Steven C. Barr wrote:

> ...It is possible ... that the final issues were on the usual "red  
> Columbia"
> label, but still bore the xxxx-D catalog numbers...?!

Izzatso? That would be a first in my estimation. In forty-plus years  
of collecting I've never seen a red Columbia pressing of a popular -D- 
series issue. There are lots of 'em with -F and a few others, and  
lots of blue and green Columbia Masterworks -Ds, but 2xxx-D or 3xxx-D  
on red Columbia? That would be something to see if you indeed have  
one. Probably as inexplicable as why CBS chose to start the pop red- 
Columbia series at 35201 rather than a more even number such as 30000  
(or why the 3xxx-D series wasn't continued but the classical suffixed  
numbers were).

I was thinking this did get reissued on red Columbia, but I find I'm  
confusing it with Columbia 35839 "Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little  
Me" (reissue of Columbia 2871-D).

To Cliff, who started this thread -- Nice find, and I wish I could've  
been at that estate sale. Once in a while you get lucky. Congrats!

Take care,


Joe
--
"If cats are 'pets' and people are 'masters' why am I the one  
standing here with a Pooper Scooper?"--Karl Knox (1960-2005)