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

[David Weiner]

The full album is included on one of those useful multi-CD sets of Goodman
material that AVID has done in the UK.

Dave Weiner

On 10/23/13 10:09 AM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>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.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Jessup
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 5:59 AM
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> 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.
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