[78-L] Br B-1000 album series query

Thu Feb 6 11:15:04 PST 2014

OK, I can answer most of these questions. Some answers come from my own copies of the records, others come from a Brunswick Collectors Series booklet that I have, which includes release details on all of the albums up to B-1022

B-1003 - Boswell Sisters
80011  A- When I Take My Sugar to Tea  B- Wha'd Ja Do to Me?
80012  A- Roll On, Misssissippi, Roll On  B- Shout, Sister, Shout!
80013  A- Shine On Harvest Moon            B- Heebie Jeebies
80014  A- River, Stay 'Way From My Door  B- It's the Girl

B-1008 - Barrel House Piano
80031  A- Pass the Jug  B- Jelly Roll Stomp (Frank Melrose)
80032  A- Jingles            B- You've Got to Be Modernistic (James P. Johnson)
80033  A- Drag 'Em        B-  Night Life (Mary Lou Williams)
80034  A-Stompin' 'Em Down  B- Tack Head Blues (Alex Hill)

B-1013 - Johnny Noble & his Hawaiians
80051  A- Song of the Islands  B- Alekoki
80052  A- King's Serenade  B- Sassy
80053  A- Hilo March            B- Moana Chimes
80054  A- Kalamaula            B- Lei Nani

B-1014  NO INFORMATION - this catalog number was never used

B-1016 - Louis Armstrong Jazz Classics
80059  A- Wild Man Blues   B- Melancholy (Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers)
80060  A- Georgia Bo Bo     B- Drop That Sack (Lill's Hot Shots)
80061  A- Static Strut            B- Stomp Off, Let's Go! (Erskine Tate's Vendome Orchestra)
80062  A- Terrible Blues      B- Santa Claus Blues (Red Onion Jazz Babies)

B-1018 - Jelly Roll Morton "A King of the Piano"
80067  A- King Porter Stomp  B- The Pearls
80068  A- Sweetheart O' Mine   B- Fat Meat and Greens

B-1019 - Red Nichols Classics - Vol. 2
80069  A- Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider  B- Feelin' No Pain
80070  A- Avalon   B- Nobody's Sweetheart
80071  A- Buddy's Habits   B- Boneyard Shuffle
80072  A- Washboard Blues  B- That's No Bargain

B-1020 - Johnny Dodds
80073  A- Weary Blues  B- New Orleans Stomp
80074  A- Come On and Stomp, Stomp, Stomp  B- After You've Gone
80075  A- Joe Turner Blues  B- When Erastus Plays His Old Kazoo
80076  A- Forty and Tight  B- Piggly Wiggly

B-1021 - Eddie Lang/Joe Venuti
80077  A- Farewell Blues  B- After You've Gone
80078  A- Beale Street Blues   B- Someday Sweetheart

B-1022 - King Oliver, Volume One
80079  A- Black Snake Blues  B- Willie the Weeper
80080  A- Aunt Hagar's Blues  B- Speakeasy Blues
80081  A- Sugar Foot Stomp  B- Snag It No. 2
80082  A- Someday Sweetheart  B- Too Bad

B-1023 - Songs of Trinidad - Wilmoth Houdini

B-1024 - Listen to Our Story - A Panorama of American Ballads
80089  A- Lady Gay (Buell Kazee)  B- The Derby Ram (Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
80090  A- The Girl I Left Behind Me (Dick Reinhart)  B- Pretty Polly (Doc Boggs)
80091  A- The Death of John Henry (Uncle Dave Macon)  B- Rock About, My Saro Jane (Uncle Dave Macon)
80092  A- True Religion (Rev. Edward Clayburn)  B- Stackerlee (Furry Lewis)

B-1025  - Mountain Frolic
80093  A- Sugar Hill (Dad Crockett)  B- Cindy (Bradley Kincaid)
80094  A- Sourwood Mountain/Sally in the Garden/Sally Goodin (The Crockett Family)  B- Sail Away, Ladies (Uncle Dave Macon & his Fruit Jar Drinkers)
80095  A- Cluck, Old Hen (Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters)  B- Black Eyed Susie (Al Hopkins & his Buckle Busters)
80096  A- Arkansas Traveler (The Tennessee Ramblers)  B- Old Joe Clark (Bradley Kincaid)

Side Designations (you can infer the 1 of 8, 5 of 12 stuff by looking at the above)
80007  A- Tea for Two  B- I Want to Be Happy (4th disc of the set)
80012  SEE ABOVE
80013  SEE ABOVE
80014  SEE ABOVE
80021  A- Head Rag Hop (Romeo Nelson) - B- Wilkins Street Stomp (Speckled Red) (3rd disc of the set)
80060  SEE ABOVE
80061  SEE ABOVE
80067  SEE ABOVE
80072  SEE ABOVE
80085  Don't have
80086  Don't have

80083  A- Valse Des Opelousas  B- One Step Des Chameaux (McGee & Ardoin)

80084  Don't have

For those 80101 and above, I have the following
80109  Mildred Bailey
80126  Stuff Smith Trio

CARY GINELL

On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:

> I'm working on a discography which I'll happily share with anyone who 
> wants it when I'm done. It's a listing of Brunswick 78rpm albums in 
> their B-1000 series. I am missing album titles, side assignations (-A / 
> -B) and side in set numbers (1 of 8, 5 of 12, etc.) for these albums: 
> B-1003, B-1008, B-1013, B-1014, B-1016 and any above B-1017 (I'm unsure 
> where the series ended).
> Further, I'm still missing side assignations (-A / -B) and side in set 
> numbers (1 of 8, 5 of 12, etc.) for individual recordings on these 
> records: Br 80007, 80012, 80013, 80014, 80021, 80060, 80061, 80067, 
> 80072, 80085, and 80086.
> I am missing matrix numbers (from the label or the runout) on these 
> records: Br 80100A (3/6) and 80101B (6/6) both by Bobby Hackett.
> The last record I show in album sets is Br 80101 (Bobby Hackett) in 
> album Br B-1026. I believe that single issues began with Br 80102 and 
> 80103, but I haven't located either. Br 80104 is a single by the Red 
> Norvo Sextet.
> I believe Br 80083 & 80084 are individual releases but have no info on 
> either.
> And finally, album set Br B-1014, if it exists, is odd as it seems to 
> fall outside the regular issue number sequence. All others in these sets 
> run from Br 80000 to 80101, consecutively.
> Any info helping to complete this little discography gratefully accepted!
> Thanks,
> Malcolm Rockwell
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