78 RPM - Bessie Smith - Preachin' The Blues / Back-Water Blues - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bessie Smith
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	14195-D
Date:	20 Mar 1927
Format:	10"
Genre:	Vocal, Blues, Jazz
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bessie Smith	Preachin' The Blues	Smith	Rate
B	Bessie Smith	Back-Water Blues	Smith	Rate

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Vocal (with) piano accomp.
Prewar Female Blues, Jazz

Bessie Smith (vocals); James P. Johnson (piano)

A) 143190-2
B) 143191-1
Recorded New York, NY, February 17, 1927

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Mike Gann 5th Nov 2023		I appreciate your hard work, xiphophilos



xiphophilos 5th Nov 2023		The fact that images 3412572 / 3412573 are Oakland pressings fits with the fact that they were sold in California, as the record store sticker shows. Spikes Bros. & Elsworth Music House at 1203 S Central Ave in Los Angeles, California was founded in 1919 as the first store on the West Coast that sold music by Black performers. More info at https://la.curbed.com/maps/central-avenue-history-jazz and in an article that quotes an interview with Benjamin "Reb" Spikes, http://basinstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/wcstjazz.pdf (page 9f.).



xiphophilos 5th Nov 2023		I've rearranged the labels chronologically per M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 32. Images 3412850 / 3412851 (and the hidden 3412574) (Bridgeport) and 3412572 / 3412573 (Oakland) are first pressings. They show Viva-tonal style labels marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with three lines of registration text in English and Spanish under the Columbia logo and with two patent dates (Jan. 21, '13 and May 22, '23) (used from Feb. 1927 to 1928). Images 3412568 and 3412569 are 1928-1929 Bridgeport represses on Viva-tonal style labels marked as "Viva-tonal Recording" with one patent date (Jan. 21, '13) and patent nr. RE. 16588. From 1927 Bridgeport typesetters began using their sans serif 10-point Gothic Condensed No. 1 for song titles - very possibly to distinguish from Oakland pressings that between Fall 1926-1935 used a larger serif font, 12 point Century Expanded, see W.B.lbl (=[u=W.B.])’s comments at https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/15304d&rc=322333#322333 Sherman and Nauck date the first label only to 1927-1928. Its use begins in February 1927 with releases like: Earl Gresh 841-D: https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/841d Vernon Dalhart & Carson Robison 847-D: https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc437785us



Mike Gann 5th Nov 2023



Mike Gann 5th Nov 2023



Mike Gann 5th Nov 2023		Have fun with the pressing plants