[78-L] Late Cal Steward 1919 re-recordings

[David Lennick]

Rerecordings..aaargh! A record I'd had and pretty much destroyed as a kid was 
Billy Murray's "Mother Hasn't Spoke to Father Since". I found it on an auction 
list and was infuriated to discover that it was a remake and just didn't have 
the same energy as the original.

Beware of remakes also on Julian Rose's "Levinsky at the Wedding"..the later 
version of one side was made after Prohibition came in.

dl

On 11/12/2011 7:40 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
>
> While looking up the long length Billy Murray recordings, I noted that
> for Victor 16676 the EDVR lists an alternate take for the Cal Stewart
> recording "Uncle Josh and the Photographer".  While take -2 was recorded
> Nov 9, 1908, take -4 was recorded Aug 1, 1919 which is very late.  He
> re-recorded 19 early sides that week, and one new one.  On Sept 12, 1919
> which seems to be his final day of recording at Victor, he re-recorded
> Ticklish Reuben and I'm Old But I'm Awfully Tough.  There are probably a
> lot of 1919 re-recordings of him on late pressings that we haven't
> noticed, maybe as many as fifty titles.
>
>
> Not having a Cal Stewart discography has caused this info to be
> generally lost to collectors.  You can figure it out by going to the
> EDVR, looking up the Cal Stewart artist page, and one by one clicking on
> his last recordings, then clicking on their recording dates.  His other
> recordings made that date will be also listed, and on a matrix number by
> matrix number basis you can see if the late re-recordings were issued.
>
> Someone (not me) needs to tabulate this.
>
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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