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

[David Weiner]

It's Clifton Webb on the issued 78.

Dave Weiner

On 3/28/13 10:35 AM, "Clifford Bolling" <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:

>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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