[78-L] Fletcher Henderson 78

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Oh I'm very aware of that!  In Canada, Wilf Carter, Hank Snow and many others recorded for Bluebird, as, in the U.S. of course, did Glen Miller, Artie Shaw etc. etc., in fact I would believe that MOST Bluebirds are not reissues. I've loved the Bluebird label since I was a child, probably because my favourite colour was blue.  I remember in the '40s when new Bluebird records came into the house and I remember the shiny black surface with the rainbow colours dancing over the surface and, of course the rich blue label with the gold writing.  I find today that either my memory is faulty or records which you know have never seen the light of day just don't have the same sheen as they did back then.
db 

     On Thursday, January 8, 2015 1:20 AM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com.invalid> wrote:
   

 
There are MANY Bluebirds that are collector's items. I'll give just one example. B-5942 by Jimmie Rodgers contains "My Good Gal's Gone Blues," featuring the Louisville Jug Band. This is by far the rarest of any Rodgers Bluebird, and rarer than most of his Victors as well, because it wasn't issued until after his death in 1933, in the worst record selling year of the Depression. It never shows up on auction lists and would likely bring several hundred dollars, if not more, if it ever was listed. Bluebird wasn't just a reissue label; there were many original issues in the 1930s that are desperately scarce: hot jazz, blues, country, and Cajun. It's one of my favorite labels.

Cary Ginell
On Jan 7, 2015, at 9:13 PM, DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid> wrote:

> 
> Bluebird 78s seem to abound in any record collection I doubt if any of them is rare enough to become a collectors' item and I'm not really interested in the monetary value of records generally anyway, but I came across one record which I like simply because of the physical artifact itself.  It is a U.S. pressed Bluebird with the "Victor" label style used between fall 1938 and fall 1943 of Fletcher Henderson's Band, Number B 10246.  It is in such pristine condition, (it came from the CBC library and the surface shines like a new record), that I'm sure it hasn't been played more than half a dozen times if at all, (well it's been played once because I just played it).  What is particularly attractive about it is that even though it's a reissue, from April 27, 1927, unusual for Bluebird, they obviously used the original 1927 stampers.  There is no distortion and the surface is so clean that switching CEDAR on and off resulted in no audible change in surface noise whatsoever.
> I'm curious to know if the U.S. ever pressed fat labeled Bluebirds; I've never seen one.  I have fat labeled Canadian pressings, both of the Buff labels and of the label style mentioned above, but no fat U.S. Labels.
> db
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