Latest Updates - Al Jolson

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Comment by JLC135:

Earlier labels added.

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Comment by JLC135:

Added new scans of the earlier labels.

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Comment by JLC135:

Label variant added.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS ●:

I tried, not much luck, and I notice a discogs item has a different set of numbers entirely.

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Comment by xiphophilos:

@DeweyGill: By the way, can you read the take and stamper info stamped under your copy's B side label?

The A side says: 3-EAL-361 79726 (take 3, mother EAL, stamper 361, matrix 79726).

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Switched track order. Al Jolson was the bigger star at the time. That's why his song is listed first in The Talking Machine World, May 15, 1921, page 178: Advance Record Bulletins for June, 1921 (i.e., released in late May 1921).

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Comment by xiphophilos:

GJ means it's a July 1921 repress, see https://www.45worlds.com/45worlds/45w_forum_topic_view.php?t=102544&h. The CP code seems to be on the original May 1921 release.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS ●:

Oh, Okay. I now see a CP code image on discogs

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Comment by han enderman:

Co A-3382 - I have images with GJ codes in the range A-3381-3393; meaning unknown. Last BV code (i.e. the normal series) I have seen is A-3379, so maybe it was replaced here by GJ, followed by CP & BP. An EV/BP coupling is known for A-3421, but this almost looks like an error.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS ●:

Probably a second pressing- GJ code

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Comment by han enderman:

Br 4402 - West Coast labels added.

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Listed in Phonograph Monthly Review 4.1 (October 1929) page 32.

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Comment by DeweyGill SUBS ●:

Back around 1981, I bought a 78 collection from the estate of a man who owned a radio repair/record shop. He retired after 30+ years in the late 1950’s, but all of his left over store stock ended up in his basement. Included were the sequential Jolson Brunswicks 4400, 4401, 4402. All three had this special sleeve. There were multiples, all in this sleeve, all unplayed. I’m not sure if this sleeve ended up on any other Jolsons, but it was on these three. The 4400 was the second press “Say It With Songs” issue, it’s possible the sleeve was not used on the first version, see sleeve text.

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Comment by tomaszposzwinski:

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Comment by Dale45 SUBS:

"April Showers" video; nod to fixbutte.
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Comment by MrPasta SUBS:

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Comment by Redpunk:

Added +Ip side B label scan.

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Side indicators appeared on Brunswick labels attached with a hyphen to the catalog numbers only until December 1948, so Redpunk's copy is the original one. The other two, without any side indicator, must both be from 1949 because of the CT tax code (in force April 9, 1948 - December 31, 1949). I'm not sure, however, why they don't list A & B above the catalog number, like other Brunswick labels between 1949 and May/June 1950.

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Comment by danceband91:

This was reviewed in the December 1948 issue of The Gramophone, so I suggest the date is changed to that, agreeing with the Missing Charts book (which does indeed have errors, but this is not one of them!). [Thanks, reference added and date corrected. Mod.]

Brunswick seem to have made a habit of releasing records out of catalogue order, and especially so from 1948-1949. Records with cat nos. from 04100 to 04237 seem to have been pre-allocated to artists in batches (e.g. 04108-04137 are all Bing Crosby records), which were then gradually released between Oct '48 and Aug '49. This ran in parallel with the standard releases (which were roughly in numerical order from 03945-04099). This confusion continues to the end of 1949, when a 'special' Brunswick release of 86 records was provided to dealers, these filling in the gaps in the subsequent releases from 04282 to roughly 04400. The Gramophone speculates that this was due to contractual obligations to the American Decca company.

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Comment by tomaszposzwinski:

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Comment by xiphophilos:

According to M. Ruppli (1996), The Decca Labels: A Discography, vol. 1: The California Sessions, page 264, these tracks were recorded on March 27, 1946, not February 27, 1946.