[78-L] Ellington, May 1945

[David Lennick]

Possible..Decca still had a lot of unissued spoken material after the ban that 
didn't see the light of day for years, if at all. Carl Sandburg, Orson Welles, 
Falstaff Openshaw never issued, and abbreviated dramas with Jane Cowl, Florence 
Eldridge and others that only came out years later on lp..along with about half 
of the recordings Jascha Heifetz made for them. Even Capitol would have sold 
twice as many copies of King Cole's "Straighten Up and Fly Right" if there'd 
been more shellac.

dl

On 1/19/2013 2:36 AM, David Weiner wrote:
> 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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