[78-L] BG question

[David Lennick]

On 6/19/2012 10:06 PM, David Jessup wrote:
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> Something struck me while looking over this material today: we’ve assumed the 78s have catalog numbers identical to the 45s (27-0117 etc). Connor lists them that way, I believe others do too. But those "catalog" numbers are in parentheses on the promo labels, as if referring to the 45rpm releases instead of designating the 78s.
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Right..that's Victor's standard style, and there wouldn't have been commercial 
78RPM issues for any of these sets by 1952. "Great Trumpet Artists" is similar, 
3 discs in a packer, 27-xxxx numbers in parentheses on the labels. A single 45 
on my shelf, Tommy Dorsey's "Boogie Woogie" b/w Larry Clinton's "Martha", is 
27-0003 from set WPT 2.

By the way, I've had 4 or 5 of these promo sets and never seen a liner note in 
any of them.

dl