[78-L] How to Date Columbia Stellar Quartette

[David Weiner]

Now let's not start THAT again! :)

Dave W.

On 7/22/12 2:37 PM, "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>I was hoping that Tim would enter into this discussion.  This
>post-dating and numbering of masters -- if the contemporary information
>about the earlier public playing of the recordings can be confirmed --
>would show that it IS possible that Columbia had shelved and then later
>numbered and issued their Original Dixieland Jass Band recordings.
>
>Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: [78-L] How to Date Columbia Stellar Quartette
>From: Tim Brooks <tbroo2 at yahoo.com>
>Date: Sun, July 22, 2012 2:18 pm
>To: "78-l at klickitat.78online.com" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>Regarding Columbia A5569 (mxs 36944/36945), "Stand Up for Jesus" by
>Andrea Sarto and "Our King Is Marching On" by the CSQ, this is indeed a
>rare record. There is apparently nothing about it in the Columbia files
>(Brian Rust compiled this part of the Columbia Master Book from
>microfilms of the files), nothing in the Chmura lists, and nothing in
>Columbia Dealer Numerical Lists of the time. Neither Bill Bryant nor I
>ever located a copy either, which is why it is not in the CMB.
>
>If there is a reference to it being played in January 1914 I would agree
>that it likely was assigned these matrix and "issue" numbers well after
>the fact - probably around May 1914, which is where these numbers would
>fall in numerical sequence. Columbia did that sort of thing from time to
>time. There's no way to know exactly when it was recorded, however.  -
>Tim Brooks
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