[78-L] Columbia test

[David Lennick]

Not necessarily, since the soundtrack was being recorded in 1943 and was a 
fairly early V-Disc issue (VD 139, mx VP 425/6)..this could have been a test or 
a playback. I don't know if there's a P (or other) prefix on the disc. I'll ask.

dl

On 10/25/2014 12:58 PM, David Weiner wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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