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

Jeff Sultanof jeffsultanof at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 20:53:29 PDT 2012


Judy Garland, Dick Haymes, Lionel Hampton, Lucky Millinder

Could it be any of these?

JS

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:48 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> 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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