[78-L] Ellington, May 1945

[David Weiner]

It seems that RCA did several album projects in 1945 that were never
issued as such, including an Artie Shaw Gershwin album and a Tommy Dorsey
classical set. Maybe shellac was still tough to acquire in the immediate
post-war months?

Dave Weiner

On 1/18/13 9:04 PM, "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:

>Prob. a typo here.
>Apparently Duke recorded a group of Duke plays his greatest hits, pres.
>for a 4x78 album, but it remained unissued at the time.
>Valburn (Directory Ellington Recs) lists only 20-3291 as Victor(US) 78:
>Caravan / Sent. Mood.
>These titles are in 45rpm RCA WPT-11, containing 27-0054-57:
>27-0054 Prelude to a Kiss / Dont Mean a thing
>27-0055 Caravan / Solitude
>27-0056 Soph. Lady / I Let a song go out of my heart
>27-0057 Black & Tan / In a Sent. Mood.
>I assume this is the same as 10" LPT 1004 "Duke Ellington's Greatest".
>Mood Indigo (27-0005) was in WPT 2.
>
>When was 20-3291 issued?
>
>han enderman
>===
>>>> Okay, I was looking in Delaunay (don't have Lord) which didn't list
>>>>those 
>tracks. 27-0056 is an early 50s issue, concurrent with the 45 I
>have..20-0054 
>would not be a regular 1945 issue..wonder what the story is on these?
>
>dl
>
>On 1/18/2013 7:27 PM, simmonssomer wrote:
>> "Caravan" Mx.D5VB261- Victor 20-0054  May 10, 1945
>> "Sophisticated Lady"      Mx D5VB267  Victor27-0056  May 14, 1945
>>
>> Al S.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: "78L"<78-L at 78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 7:12 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Ellington, May 1945
>>
>>
>>> RCA EPA-5054 has Caravan and Mood Indigo, recorded May 11/45 and
>>> Sophisticated
>>> Lady, May 14/45. Not Victor sessions. What's the source for these?
>>>
>>> dl
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