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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Jeff Sultanof" <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
> From what I know about Goodman records, I'd say that 300 is not accurate.
> 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.
>
The Columbia ledgers show the initial pressing order, and usually any
subsequent pressing orders. I assume/hope that Sony still holds these
files...?!

Steven C. Barr