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78 RPM Record

Artist: Babe Ruth Label:   Actuelle Country: USA Catalogue: 022443 Date: Oct 1920 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  1 Owns Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Babe Ruth	"Babe" Ruth's Home Run Story		Rate
B	Duane Sawyer And His Novelty Orchestra	Abadele	Toddard, Franklin	Rate

Notes

A: Monolog
B: Fox Trot

B composers: Harry Stoddard (Toddard is a typo), Joseph B. Franklin.

A runout: 022443A 39; B runout: 022443B 84.
Both sides recorded New York, NY, September 1920.

If ordered by mail directly from Pathé in New York, the record came with "one photographic print of his autographed photograph free."

Simultaneously released as Pathé 22443 (diamond-cut).


Advertised in Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM), Sunday, October 3, 1920, page 8.
Advertised in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), Sunday, October 10, 1920, page 44.

Images

Number: 1948208  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Pathé Actuelle 022443 A side label

Number: 1948209  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Pathé Actuelle 022443 B side label

Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 11th May 2019		A side: A picture of the promo photo and a transcript of the text of Ruth's monolog can be found here: http://keymancollectibles.com/records/baberuthhomerunstorypatheactuellerecord.htm Otherwise, the text shows that the writer didn't know much about 78s, especially the comment about needle-cut vs. sapphire-cut records. The speaker was probably not "Babe" Ruth himself but recording pioneer and "elocutionist" Russell Hunting who set up Pathé's U.S. branch in 1914 and was the recording director of its New York studio until 1922: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/baseball-storied-artifacts/ Based on contemporary newspaper accounts, however, Babe Ruth got paid $5,000 to speak into the horn.
xiphophilos 11th May 2019		B side:

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