Latest Updates - The Pied Pipers

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Comment by xiphophilos:

A side:
[YouTube Video]

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Image {1116116} is the only label with a dotted "i" in the Capitol label name. That also happens to be Capitol's earliest label style, the Label 42:

1942-1944 label with Capitol dome logo extending below the word Capitol, see Label 42 at https://www.friktech.com/btls/capitol/capitollabels.pdf The type face points to a Los Angeles pressing.

Images {1132190} and {1132191} are Scranton represses on the 1945-1946 label with Capitol dome logo no longer extending below the word Capitol, see Label 45 at https://www.friktech.com/btls/capitol/capitollabels.pdf

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Capitol added a B-prefix to its pop releases between July and October 1947, and a A-prefix to its Capitol Americana series.

The earliest B-prefixes I have seen so far are B437 and B438 (both July 1947).

Here are a bunch from August and September 1947: B450, B451, B452, B453, B454 and B455.

Starting with B-461, Capitol added a hyphen between prefix and catalog number.

The last B-prefix release may be B-466 (late September 1947).

Capitol seems to have dropped the prefix idea pretty quickly and repressed these releases without letter prefixes.

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Comment by xiphophilos:

Added recording dates, confirmed release date per William Brown, "The Columbia Records (U.S.) 35000 / 40000 Series Popular Singles Discography 1939-1974," New York, NY, 1996.

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Comment by Shabner SUBS:

Side A: (HCO 2257), -Weston-Stordahl-Taylor-, Vocal, with The Pied Pipers (By special arrangement with Capitol Records, Inc.), Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl
Side B: (CO 35484), -Symes-Farrow-, Vocal, English and Italian Lyrics, Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl