[78-L] Further questions on RCA/Bluebird 31-0000 series

[David Lennick]

Nope, not part of a set. Is 31-0009 vinyl?

At one point a few years ago, I think we had a listing of all the late Bluebird 
Series numbers including those by Eddie Cantor, Cab Calloway, Ralph Flanagan etc.

dl

On 1/16/2012 12:19 PM, Glenn Longwell wrote:
> 31-0009 is the only one of this series that I have that I know of.
> A side  Some Enchanted Evening by Eve Young from South PacificB side  You Can Have Him by Eve Young from Miss Liberty
> No reference on the label that it is part of a set.
> Glenn
>
> --- On Mon, 1/16/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Further questions on RCA/Bluebird 31-0000 series
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, January 16, 2012, 10:55 AM
>
> 31-0009 and 31-0010 appear to be other recordings of songs from Miss Liberty,
> per the Irving Berlin Songography..the Al Goodman album is BN-4 and the
> individual numbers aren't given (and my copy is stowed away at the moment).
> 31-0009: YOU CAN HAVE HIM..EVE YOUNG (don't know what's on the flip)
> 31-0010: LET'S TAKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALK/I LOVE YOU..JOHNNY BRADFORD
>
> The Goodman set features Wynn Murray, Bob Wright, Martha Wright and Jimmy
> Carroll, The Guild Choristers and Al Goodman's Orchestra, and I'm 99% sure the
> numbers are 0005/0008.
>
> dl
>
> On 1/16/2012 10:47 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> 31-0010 is Johnny Bradford: Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk / (Just One Way To Say) I Love You.
>> Both titles from musical production "Miss Liberty" (Berlin). (from labels)
>> Considering release in 2nd half of 1949, the series can possibly be traced in Billboard (advance lists or
>> reviews) by its release nrs or the musical titles.
>> So is this more from Miss Liberty or is david's numbering inaccurate (no album nr on labels of 31-0010) ?
>>
>> han enderman
>> ===
>>>>> 31-0001/4 were Al Goodman doing a box set of SOUTH PACIFIC (using the
>> understudies) and I think 31-0005/8 made up another box set of Irving Berlin's
>> MISS LIBERTY. Vinyl pressings, nicely done, marketed to the great unwashed.
>> Columbia also had a budget line, Harmony, which was distributed by Eli
>> Oberstein's company and was doing too well..it had a couple of hits so they
>> snagged it back and put the artists like Rosemary Clooney on the full price
>> label. I'm not sure what Canada did with either of these series..certainly they
>> didn't give Bluebird the deluxe treatment here.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/16/2012 1:49 AM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
>>> Since I asked recently about my two record album (Ilene Woods, "Walt
>>> Disney's Cinderella"), from the short lived, RCA/Bluebird 31-0000 series,
>>> I've found little information about the series. Only that it was short
>>> lived, and few discs. However, it seemingly made it to 31-0014, because I
>>> have 0013&    0014. What other releases were released on the series. Are they
>>> considered from the RCA, or the Bluebird catalog?
>>>
>>> Googling leads to little, less, and nada? Were these issued as code
>>> recordings for the Allies, or what?
>>>
>>> Please, can anyone add other recordings to the 31-0000 series? Perhaps we
>>> can collectively create the missing discography.
>>>