[78-L] alternate take puzzle -- Lyric 4207

[David Lennick]

This happened .. when I was transferring Black Swans last year, I had one song 
in two entirely different versions (probably different artists), different 
matrix numbers, same catalog number, same song, different originating labels.

dl

On 2/27/2014 1:01 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> The lateral was pulled from a different recording company/session perhaps,
> because it was lateral as opposed to the usual vertical which came from
> Pathe, I think.
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> Ron L
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> Subject: [78-L] alternate take puzzle -- Lyric 4207
>
> Just got a copy of Lyric 4207 "At the High Brown Babies' Ball" by Yerkes
> Novelty Five, probably recorded c. October 1919 --  and the matrix seems
> odd. Every reference I've seen re this disc indicates mx 12015 (The flip
> side, "Missouri Blues," by the same group, has mx 12014.) This disc plainly
> shows mx 1014-2 for "High Brown Babies'." And it is clearly a different take
> than the 12015 I've heard. Also, the label has the word "Lateral," which
> later Lyrics I have do not.
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> Why the unusual mx?? (Does 1014 fit with some known series from another
> label or recording lab? Was there an earlier mx series at Lyric? Were
> mistakes made in engraving matrices ?)
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> Any ideas ?
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