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

[Sean Miller]

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

On May 3, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Glenn Longwell wrote:

> Nice find.  I too found this record at an estate sale a couple of months ago in CT.  I didn't even know what it was until I got home.  There were several collectors sifting through the LPs and 78s and I saw the label and quickly put it aside and kept searching. A blue label Columbia of Benny Goodman for $1 is all I needed to know and moved on before someone found another gem before me.
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> I question the 300 number as well.  Don't shoot me for bringing this up as I don't believe much in price guides for their so-called "book value" but if there were truly only 300 of these and with Billie Holiday typically commanding extra dollars you'd think this would be priced quite differently to the Goodman records just before and after it.  Only marginally.  So either all the Goodman records were pressed in minimal quantities (unlikely) or Docks got it wrong (possible but would think this would be an obvious one if it were true) or Wikipedia is wrong (very likely).
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> Great record.  Mine unfortunately is more in VG- condition but still plays pretty decent.
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> Cheers,
> Glenn
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> --- On Tue, 5/3/11, 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:
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> From: 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac
> To: "78-l Online" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 9:13 AM
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> Thanks for all the info!  I traced the Wiki comment about 300 sold to Yahoo Answers from 2 years ago.  Not too encouraging.
> 
> I'm very happy to have stumbled upon this old recrod at an estate sale here in Portland on Sunday.  Other records from this sale include the first record by 'The Cotton Pickers' (Brunswick 2292), the first by the Friars Society Orchestra aka New Orleans Rhythm Kings (Gennett 4966), a 1926 Six Jumping Jacks - Harry Reser (Brunswick 3109), a Harmony 280-H by the Manhattan Dance Makers singing 'Tonight You Belong To Me' - made popular again in the 1950s by Patience and Prudence, and a 1929 Bing Crosby Columbia 1851-D (looks real good but plays all mumbly like).  
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> I'm beginning to think I should have brought the entire collection (approx 400-500 records) home instead of the 50 or 60 I bought.  Probably was a lot more good stuff that I don't know about, but storage space is becoming a significant issue.  
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> Thanks!! CDB
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> --- On Mon, 5/2/11, 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:
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> From: 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> Subject: Your Mother's Son-In-Law - BG and Billie Holiday on Columbia Blue Shellac
> To: "78-l Online" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Date: Monday, May 2, 2011, 10:09 AM
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> I recently acquired a blue shellac copy (Columbia 2856-D) of Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday performing Your Mother's Son-In-Law.  Wikipedia says only 300 copies of the original issue sold.  View and listen here:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvNBoIcDg7s
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> I suspect my copy is a reissue - 1939 or so, however someone told me it was an original issue from 1933.  Any comments?  Got my fingers crossed...
> 
> CDB
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