[78-L] Was - Judy Canova Now - Al Jolson Decca

[Jeff Sultanof]

According to a Billie Holiday boxed set from several years ago, they went
to tape (at least in New York) in early 1949, about the same time as
Capitol.

Jeff Sultanof

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 3/17/2012 11:41 AM, Mom's Garage wrote:
> > Mike, just picked up an Al Jolson Decca 10" EP Microgroove "Featured in
> the Columbia Technicolor Production"  Where does this fit into the 12" OTR
> Al Jolson series you just mentioned?  Thanks,  Miss Patti.
>
> The 10-inch LPs were almost all the same as the 78 albums.  There were
> two movie albums, Jolson Story and Jolson Sings Again, and you don't
> give any indication of which one you have.  When the 10-inch LPs were
> deletd in the mid-50s, Milt Gabler compuled all the recordings Jolson
> had recorded for Decca into a series of 5 12-inch LPs Dl 9034 thru 37
> with a gold stripe around the edges and an umbrella series title The
> Jolson Story.  The songs on the old albums were intermixed on these new
> albums (along with a few singles which hadn't been put on an album), so
> the songs on your album were all over these five.
>
>  Since this was everything they had of Jolson, they next went on to the
> master tapes of the Kraft Music Hall broadcasts which Jolson had
> reportedly put in a vault for his adopted son's legacy.  DL 9050 was the
> first of these, and the format of the cover matched the other five, but
> there was a note that these were from the Kraft broadcasts.  Three of
> the final four used color paintings on the cover, DL 9063, DL 9070,  DL
> 9074 and DL 9095.  None of the broadcast LPs were complete broadcast or
> even extended sections.  They did have some of Jolson's intros to the
> songs and the final album had routines with Oscar Levant.  The one that
> was titles Al Jolson Overseas wasn't, despite the two pictures of Al in
> Korea.  They were domestic Kraft broadcasts.  The sound quality is
> magnificant because these were the original 30 Inches Per Second
> full-track tapes recorded by Jack Mullen on his Ampex 200's.   The Decca
> masters were mainly from lacquer safeties, many of them Western Electric
> Wide Range Vertical.  I'm not sure if we've gotten an aacounting of when
> they went vertical and when they went to tape.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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