[78-L] Columbia test

[David Weiner]

The matrix number dates from early 1944, so it's during the record ban and
too early for a V-Disc of the RHAPSODY IN BLUE soundtrack. The only other
V-Dsc RHAPSODY I know of is one by Elliot Lawrence and that was recorded
in 1947.

Dave Weiner

On 10/25/14, 11:45 AM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid>
wrote:

>
>A friend has a12" test pressing, single sided, with unknown performers.
>Columbia matrix 33450, Rhapsody in Blue. It's not Levant/Ormandy and it's
>not 
>Templeton/Kostelanetz (matrix numbers are both different). I'm not able
>to hear 
>the disc and this is actually only for curiosity's sake (it's in a
>collection 
>I'm appraising but by remote control, from a printout list), but does
>anyone 
>know who this might be? A test run for the V-Disc? I don't have the book
>handy. 
>(My V-Disc was pressed by Clark and doesn't have this mx number.)
>
>dl
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