[78-L] Identification on Test Pressings

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Jeez, that's better!
Mal

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On 1/14/2012 9:07 AM, Malcolm - Venerable Music wrote:
> Hey Mal - It's two different one sided pressings actually. So it would make
> more sense.
> Malcolm
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malcolm Rockwell
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:38 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Identification on Test Pressings
>
> Okay then! I'm a bit surprised that a 1922 master is coupled with one
> from 1920 but stranger things have happened.
> Mal
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> On 1/14/2012 8:34 AM, Malcolm - Venerable Music wrote:
>> Thanks Don - Can I ask how you were able to figure it out? I do hear the
>> them say the words Whispering Hope!
>> Malcolm
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Don Chichester
>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 1:21 PM
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Identification on Test Pressings
>>
>>
>> "Whispering Hope", Grace Kerns-Mildred Potter, vocal duet w/orch, 1-15-22,
>> Col A-1686, mx 39792-1-2-3 Rust, Columbia Vol II)
>>
>> Don Chichester
>>
>>
>>> From: malcolm at venerablemusic.com
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:33:13 -0500
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Identification on Test Pressings
>>>
>>> Nope - Not Spanish and not 12". The first line in the chorus is Wait Till
>>> The Darkness is Over.
>>> Malcolm
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Lennick
>>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 12:23 PM
>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Identification on Test Pressings
>>>
>>> Any chance that the duet is in Spanish? 5xxx matrix numbers are Spanish
>>> and
>>> Mexican, and 5xxx catalog numbers have to be twelve-inch.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 1/14/2012 12:05 PM, Malcolm - Venerable Music wrote:
>>>> Great - I could not make out the artists, but now see it's Yerkes. They
>>>> are
>>>> 10" and the first is A3091 as you suspected.
>>>> The second is almost surely a 5 as the first number but the other three
>>>> are
>>>> tough. Could be 5883 or 5683??
>>>> Are they definitely Columbias?
>>>> Malcolm
>>>>
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: David Lennick
>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:58 AM
>>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Identification on Test Pressings
>>>>
>>>> The first one is Yerkes Orchestra, intended as Columbia A3091..that much
>>>> is
>>>> visible on the label, but there's no numerical listing in the Columbia
>>>> books
>>>> so
>>>> off to Tyrone's site we go..
>>>>
>>>> ..and that doesn't help because according to it, A3091 is in the
>>>> Educational
>>>> Series and is the Columbia Orchestra playing March of the Little Lead
>>>> Soldiers
>>>> and Venetian Love Song, both recorded in the mid 1910s.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 1/14/2012 11:43 AM, Malcolm - Venerable Music wrote:
>>>>> Hello Everyone – I just picked up 2 test pressings and have no idea how
>>>>> to
>>>>> trace them back for artist&   title information.
>>>>> They are from the early 20s. TP_1 is mainly a xylophone solo with
>>>>> typical
>>>>> orchestra background&   TP_2 is a female vocal duet.
>>>>>
>>>>> The markings on TP_1 A5091. TP_2 is harder to read, but the numbers
>>>>> appear
>>>>> to be 5683?? There is nothing in the dead wax of either pressing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are links to view the labels -
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.venerableradio.com/TP_1.jpg
>>>>> http://www.venerableradio.com/TP_2.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> Malcolm
>>>>>
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