Latest Updates - Cab Calloway

---

Comment by jukeboxvinyl:

[YouTube Video]

Both sides

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

B-side variant label image added

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Leedon:

Images Added.

---

Comment by Leedon:

Images Added.

---

Comment by cyeaman SUBS:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by xiphophilos:

You are right, of course. I thought I'd seen more of the Century Expanded numbers than of the Cheltenham ones when I scrolled trough the releases we have, but now I see it's the other way around. And in fact, I now see that you'd declared a 1929 label to be "typical East Coast with fonts from the Cheltenham family" at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/4418us&rc=355428#355428

---

Comment by W.B.lbl ●:

Funny, I'd've thought the Cheltenham {Images #3630345 & 3630346} was East Coast and the Century Expanded {Images #3630091 & 3630092} was West Coast, but . . .

---

Comment by xiphophilos:

The catalog numbers of the East Coast and West Coast versions (#1 and #1W) are set in very different fonts. The East Coast version numbers might be Century Expanded; the West Coast maybe a type of Cheltenham? I've written to W.B.lbl to help us identify the fonts for sure. Based on the font similarity, though, #2 looks also like a West Coast version to me.

Variant #2 (from 1932) lists the matrix number in the runout: ?35881ᴬ 4. The ? stands for what may be a small letter that I can't read,
Variant #3 (from 1934, with the inner pressing ring) lists the matrix numbers both on the labels and in the runouts. In the A side runout, it may again be preceded by some other letter: ?35881ᴬ 9 ⍑. The B side runout also has something like ⍑ in the 9 o'clock position. Couldn't read the rest on the original uncropped images.

---

Comment by han enderman:

Br 6105 - 5 label images added of 3 additional label types (#1W AB, #2 A, #3 AB; #1 & 4 already present).
#1 - Br Radio Corp., Subs. Warner Bros (at bottom).
#1W - (presumably) West Coast variant of #1, with very different layout.
#2 - Br Radio Corp. (Warner Bros. omitted)
#3 - Br Record Corp.; Patent nr under label name. Not licensed for radio broadcast. Title & credit serifed.
#4 - Br Record Corp.; no patent nr under label name. Title & credit sans serif .
Note that on West Coast pressing #1W everything is different: fonts of all lines, incl. cat.nr; 2-line description at 3; Spanish title in italics; layout of credit. It is possible that #2 is a later West Coast label. Types #1-3 have on the B-side an underlined cat.nr.
Note also that #1 is among the very first releases with this new label type. The last known release with the previous label type is 6111; this type has only a patent nr under the label name in small print and a different bottom legend.

---

Comment by xiphophilos:

"Nobody's Sweetheart" is the A side after all. The original 1931 release marks "St. James Infirmary" as the B side with a dash in the runout, see the images here.

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

@ Paul Hughes. We need your A-side label image. You uploaded the B-side image twice.

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by DeweyGill SUBS:

@ cyeaman-I saw him In Milwaukee in the ‘80’s as well. I think it was at a Jazz Festival at the Summerfest grounds. I had a chance to interview him briefly. Not sure if this is the one you were at. I think he appeared here twice in the ‘80’s. His popularity spiked after the Blues Brothers movie. I think that was the same event I was supposed to interview Buddy Rich at- but that story needs its own page.

---

Comment by cyeaman SUBS:

I saw Cab Calloway in Milwaukee in 1988. The man put on an amazing show. He was 81 years old and I remember his performance more vividly than I do those of performers 1/4th his age. Sometimes, older is better.

---

Comment by DeweyGill SUBS:

Added images

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

A-side and B-side variant label images added

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]

---

Comment by Mike Gann:

[YouTube Video]