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

[Han Enderman]

Info on the 31-00xx series can be obtained from Billboard Archives.
I just searched the Archives with some of the release nrs (31-0011/12 a.o.) and got numbers of Bb pages.

Albums BN-3 (S.Pacific) & BN-4 are listed among Best-Selling Popular Albums in Bb 1949-09-24 p28.
The Tattlers 31-0011 & Jack Searle 31-0012 should be in Bb 1949-08-06 pT18 (acc. to search results).
I am unable, however, to find a page T18, so what is this ??? [such T pages are often mentioned in searches]
What is on these two records?

I found no results for 31-0015/16, so poss. 31-0014 was the last issue.
31-0001 etc can be found and maybe Dennis Flannigan will do this for us and make the 31-0000 list.
A related question now is: what is on albums BN-1/2 (have never seen a BN album; B from Bluebird?).
My computer becomes very, very slow when searching Billboard and scrolling through the mag issues,
and also I am unable to search within such an issue. 
Thus I really dislike Billboard's archives, though there is much interesting info in it.

han enderman
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>>> 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.
>>
> 
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