[78-L] Jack Jenney on Columbia 78

[David Lennick]

My copy has take 2A on both sides, and Rust says those takes were used for reissue.

dl

On 3/14/2012 11:13 AM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Rust says the A take was issued originally.  This copy of G-3 is also the A take.
> Never heard of that series and never saw a black label Columbia, so I must lead a sheltered life.
> Thanks,
>
> Rodger
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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> --- On Wed, 3/14/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jack Jenney on Columbia 78
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 9:24 AM
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> 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.
>>
>> dl
>>
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