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

Martin Fenton mafenton at talktalk.net
Wed May 4 12:58:07 PDT 2011


On 04/05/2011 02:08, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Would the quantity pressed be on a card in the Sony archive?

I've just scoured the hefty booklet in the "Complete Billie Holiday on 
Columbia 1933-1944" CD box, having recalled something said about the 
number of copies sold.

It doesn't mention a specific figure, but points out that the preceding 
year had been Columbia's worst sales-wise, and that the record sold so 
poorly that John Hammond didn't record Billie Holiday again until nearly 
2 years later.

Martin.


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