[78-L] US Decca Album 188

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Mar 5 17:54:53 PST 2013


On 3/5/2013 8:42 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>
>> In fact Album 183, Anthology of White Jazz, has 2-41 as the printing date on
>> the booklet, so a bit later in 1941 for 188.
>
> Good to know, although there's no guarantee those albums were released in strict numerical order (by catalog number of the records or by the album number). Maybe Russell can tell us the date in his set, if he happens to have a booklet. Could be a tall order.
>
>> (Hands up, all those who own Decca
>> Album 187, Cecil Leeson playing a Sonata for Saxophone by Edvard Moritz. What,
>> am I the only one?)
>
> Not a blue-label, right?
>
> Indeed not: Decca 29079/81 (matrices 68177/82; 1 October 1940). No, don't have it. Foot-longs, right? All take A, or ???
>
Red label. Guess I should put that one up on eBay one of these days.

dl


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