[78-L] Jack Jenney on Columbia 78

[David Lennick]

By the way, the reissues on G-3 and the lp GL 100 are alternates. Stardust was 
also on Biltmore and Jay (pirate issues, from the original Vocalion takes) so 
that might have encouraged Columbia's reissues.

dl

On 3/14/2012 8:55 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 3/14/2012 8:51 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> On 14/03/12 12:44, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>>> Several years ago I picked up a bunch of radio station 78s mid-40s early 50s
>>> including a few ETs and a batch of DJ issues. These have prompted several
>>> questions, but I start with the earliest item in the lot.
>>>
>>> It is Jack Jenney and His Orchestra, Stardust b/w I Walk Alone. These date
>>> from late 1939, and were issued on Vocalion/OKeh. This was a short-lived
>>> band, only nine issued records (18 sides) but this issue is obviously much
>>> later. It has the usual late 1940’s Columbia Special Record for Radio
>>> Stations white label – flat-topped DJ w/ bow tie, stripped shirt etc. This
>>> is pressed from what appears to be original masters (both –A, by the way),
>>> complete with the W prefix, identical to the same vintage Vocalion/OKehs I
>>> have. Nice record (well, Stardust is, anyway), great smooth shellac, in
>>> decent shape – a keeper.
>>>
>>> The puzzle is that I find no corresponding issues on commercial Columbia 78,
>>> in fact I find no Jenney sides ever issued on Columbia at all. These two
>>> were not originally paired on VO/OK and the “catalog number,” if you
>>> will, on this DJ disc is 3-G, obviously not a regular issue number but only
>>> a special-use number – so why was this made? Can’t imagine it was for
>>> music service use – those would have been only ET format, right? Was there
>>> a Jack Jenney memorial album planned and scrapped – or issued on some
>>> other label? There are others of similar design in this batch, but they are
>>> all masters of much later vintage, tunes new in late ’47 early ’48.
>>> Anybody know or offer a good guess why this was pressed?
>>>
>>> Rodger
>>>
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>> Is this Columbia C-10280 or M-744? Both are listed in ADBORAF.
>>
>> Julian Vein
> C-10280 is the Canadian issue I mentioned, same time period as G-3.
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> dl
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