[78-L] Victor 25461 & 25469 BG with Ella

[Dan Van Landingham]

I found Victor 25461 and 25469 in Coos Bay,Oregon at a shop that sold and serviced juke boxes and pinball machines for a dollar each back in 1994.I still have both copies.I gave a dollar each for both.The only other copy I have of "Did You Mean It" is by the big band that was organized by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band around 1936.I was under the impression that the BG/Ella recordings were recalled due to an impending lawsuit by Decca.

--- On Sat, 2/2/13, Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor 25461 & 25469 BG with Ella
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2013, 11:50 PM


25461 actually has three distinct versions:Goodnight, My Love/Take Another Guess (the original, both with EF vocals)Goodnight, My Love (EF vocals)/Tain't No Use (BG vocals, recycled from 25469)Goodnight, My Love (Frances Hunt vocals)/Tain't No Use
The recording with Frances Hunt is a new take from January 1937--one of Harry James's first sessions with the BG orchestra. I've heard it reported that it's actually harder to find the Hunt version on 78 than the Fitzgerald. Could be true--my copy is the hybrid with the EF vocals and "Tain't No Use". 
A quick search on Popsike shows that the two withdrawn Goodman discs have gone for decent but not extraordinary prices in the last seven years or so. The original of 25461 has gone for between $31 and $91, while 25469 sold for $33 the one time it shows up in their database. By contrast, the slow-selling Victor of "Proud of a Baby Like You" by the Jean Goldkette orchestra has gone for anywhere from $36 to $363. 
Quick question: if Decca objected to Ella's three Victor sides, why didn't they raise a fuss about the two Brunswicks she made with Teddy Wilson earlier that year? Or did they? (Those incidentally, have gone for about the same prices as the Victors, $31-$81 or so.)
-HA (sorry if this looks jumbled up on 78online.com--don't know what's been causing it)

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