[78-L] Decca joins the war of the speeds

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Nov 1 20:48:08 PDT 2012


You'd have thought Oklahoma as I did. Nope, Oklahoma is 9-6. Bearing in mind 
that these all probably came out in one batch, you'd still expect one of their 
biggest sellers to have the first number.  But noooooo!

Next guess?

dl

On 11/1/2012 11:36 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> My guesses: Oklahoma or a Bing Crosby album. After all, Columbia's first
> pop 10" LP was Sinatra.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:38 PM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>
>> When Decca began issuing album sets on 45s in 1949, their second box set
>> was
>> "Manhattan Tower", a steady seller since 1946. Anyone know what was the
>> first,
>> i.e. album 9-1? The answer may surprise you.
>>
>> dl
>>
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