[78-L] Leo Reisman Test Pressing - Matrix Mixup?

Clifford Bolling 78records at cdbpdx.com
Thu Mar 28 07:35:21 PDT 2013


Rust says this song - A RAINY DAY - was sung by George Wheeler while Kinkle names Clifton Webb.
 
Rust got the matrix number wrong, wouldn't be a stretch to think he got the singer wrong, too.  Anybody
got a copy of Victor 24157 and does it name the singer?
 
Thanks!  CDB
 
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On 25 Mar 2013, at 11:03 AM, Clifford Bolling wrote:

>I have a Victor test pressing from Oct 5, 1932 featuring the Leo Reisman orchestra with a song 
>titled 'A RAINY DAY'.  There is text scratched into the extra large lead-in wax, thus: 
>>BS-73770-1-10/5/32-29-12OR-A4  RAINY DAY REISMAN OR-1HT12+8/3 (DOM) 
>>I assume the 73770-1 is the matrix number and take number. 

>Look up that matrix number in Rust and 
>it shows 'WOULDJA FOR A BIG RED APPLE', recorded the same day and apparently rejected. 
>Then, Rust shows the matrix number for 'A RAINY DAY' as 73764-1 and released on Victor 24157. 
>>I do not have a regular issued copy of A RAINY DAY so I don't know what matrix and take number it shows, 
>but I'd bet it isn't the number on this test pressing - 73770. 
>>Any comments? 


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