[78-L] Benny Goodman Trio plays for Fletcher Henderson Fund

[David Lennick]

XTV prefix is for 12-inch transcriptions (I forget what the V might stand for).

dl

On 10/23/2013 9:38 AM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> Thanks David.
> Interesting that they had a price differential for low numbers - it would (to me) make more sense to
> have an autographed edition for a premium.
>> From the label pix on e-Bay, the stampers on the Columbia GL/CL issue were different (XTV 14888/14889 on the original, XLP
> 9632/9633 on the Columbia reissues}
> There was a copy of G 4-14 sold which, as you surmise, is described as 6 45rpm discs.
> I'm guessing the "MB" catalog number prefix meant Make Believe ballroom - were there any other albums sourced from this show?
> Was the broadcast and subsequent release planned with the intent of raising funds for Henderson, or an afterthought?
> Best wishes, Thomas.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Benny Goodman Trio plays for Fletcher Henderson Fund
>
>
> I've trawled through early-1990s correspondence with Russ Connor to find what he told me about this release; that plus Ross
> Firestone's biography gives me this:
>
> The record was sold "through the radio station," 2500 copies in toto, at $7.00. (This when LPs were retailing for $3.98 to $4.98).
> Low-numbered copies were sold at a higher price: $15.00. Thus you'll understand why those who bought the highest-price copies got
> upset when something they'd been led to believe would be an exclusive got public sale at retail about a year later.
>
> I see copy #20 went through that big www auction site in the past couple weeks; was tempted but my budget forces me to stay with
> copy #1745.
>
> All best - Dave
>
> Thomas Stern
>
>      Tue Oct 22 18:23:43 PDT 2013
>
>
>
> Thanks David!
> Wonder - what was the price of the MB-1000 issue, and was it sold in stores, mail, or some other market channel ????  Any idea how
> many copies were manufactured or sold ???
> Thanks!
> Best wishes, Thomas.