[78-L] Kaufman's Pagan Love Song on LP

[Jeff Sultanof]

I specifically remember reading that Harmony issued electrical recordings
sometime in 1929. I don't remember the source, and the fact that H was used
suggests to me that Coumbia was indeed ripping off Western Electric by
making electrical recordings and not documenting them properly.

Columbia took any number of liberties with recordings on the sets from the
era under discussion. The Woody Herman set had several alternate takes which
were misidentified, and a Benny Goodman Epic reissue had an entire
instrumental chorus edited out on the song "Full Moon (Noche de Luna)."

This is a vague memory, but I specifically remember a Smithsonian Records
reissue set where all sorts of editing took place. Martin Williams was the
culprit, and this created a real uproar at the time. Dan Morgenstern once
discussed it at a lecture. Does anyone remember this at all?

Jeff Sultanof