78 RPM - King Cole Trio - Pitchin' Up A Boogie / I'm Lost - Excelsior - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	King Cole Trio
Label:	Excelsior
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	00104 / 00105
Date:	1943
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
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Price Guide:	$27
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PRICE GUIDE

$27

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	King Cole Trio	Pitchin' Up A Boogie	King Cole	Rate
B	King Cole Trio	I'm Lost	Otis Rene	Rate

Notes

Nat King Cole, piano, vocals; Oscar Moore, guitar; Johnny Miller, bass.
Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 1943

Billboard, July 15, 1944 article, page 66: "I'm Lost" on Excelsior

Images

Number: 2059672

THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: A side

Number: 2059668

Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: B Side

Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 18th Oct 2019		Filling some kind of gap here. As Otis René had obviously founded his label to get around the recording ban and recorded and released his first two records under the radar of the musicians' union, I could not believe that he would have waited until the end of the ban to release his March 1943 recordings of the King Cole Trio. And indeed, the label design and the side numbers of this rare issue here resemble his previous records from 1942 and suggest a release date soon after the recording session in 1943, anyway several months before the modified issue LC 105 / BC 104 came out in 1944. As there are no matrix numbers beside the side numbers on the labels, this version here was obviously not in the stores anymore when "I'm Lost" finally charted in October 1944 and Billboard took the (incorrect) matrix number 2986 from the new issue for the catalog number. For this issue here I took the side numbers as the basis for the A-/B-side decision, thus preferring the more vivid "Pitchin' Up A Boogie" to the later hit side.