[78-L] Ellington, May 1945

[Han Enderman]

Due to the 1948 recording ban, Victor released unissued earlier work.
I checked some adjacent releases in the Vic 20-3200s range (from label images)
and found:
20-3260 Cats & Fiddle, Bluebird Jan 1941 (RE-ISSUED by Request label)
20-3261 Crudup, Sep 1946 & Oct 47 (more Oct 47 had been on 20-2989/3140)
20-3278 Jacquet, Dec 1947 (others had been on 20-2702/2892/3060)
20-3288 Perry Como: N'Yot N'Yow / Roses of Picardy - (rec.date?)
20-3291 ELLINGTON 1945
20-3297 Pat Flowers 1947 (his last Victor release)
20-3309 Tampa Red, Sep 1946 & Oct 1947 (more from late 47 on 20-3008/3160)
20-3315 R. Sykes, Feb 1946 & Nov 1947 (others from Nov 47 on 20-3014).

For the complete series, though lacking many dates, see Ty's RCA Vic lists.

han enderman
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>>> {Ellington] 20-3291 would be around the end of 1948. 
WPT is a 45-rpm set, and it was 
already in the "collectors item" category even though it wasn't a reissue. 
Interesting. The 3 tracks I mentioned are on a 1958 EP in the Gold Standard 
series. I probably have these on the French RCA Black and White lp but I'd 
never noticed them before. I wonder why they weren't issued as 78s in the first 
place?

dl

On 1/18/2013 9:04 PM, Han Enderman 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
> <<<