[78-L] Stop the presses! Dwight Fiske alternate take discovered

[david.diehl at hensteeth.com]

>Interesting that Fiske had Victor run two cutters for his sides. 
Usually they did that for only things they truely expected to be big 
sellers. I would guess that by Depression-era standards his records sold very well. He had two books of his routines that were very well recieved by reviewers. I see more Fiskana in thrift stores than, say, Cole Porter Victors of similar vintage. Fiske was such a class act that the Comstock Commission didn't harass RCA Victor about its Fiskana records until June of 1942. The label of my copy of Why Should Penguins Fly is printed printed with that funky greenish wartime ink (I forget what Victor's terminology was).
DJD

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On 6/21/2011 5:28 PM, david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:> Which sent me to the pile of party records I got during my ARSC trip. My new copy of 'Molly' is take 1. The flipside 'Mr. Webster' shows no take number; paperwork is ambiguous, with the artist file showing only 1 and 1A but the logbook shows 2 as 'HC' with 3& 3A both 'D'> Thanks,> DJD>Interesting that Fiske had Victor run two cutters for his sides. Usually they did that for only things they truely expected to be big sellers.Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com> -----Original Message-----> From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]> I have 3 copies of Fiskana 36167, Molly O'Toole The Fan Dancer..2 are take 1, the other is take 2 which runs much closer to the label_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l