78 RPM - Duke Ellington - Blues I Love To Sing / Blue Bubbles - Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Duke Ellington
Label:	Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	21490
Date:	17 Aug 1928
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
Price Guide:	$48
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PRICE GUIDE

$48

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Duke Ellington	Blues I Love To Sing	Ellington, Miley	10.0 Rate
B	Duke Ellington	Blue Bubbles	Ellington, Miley	10.0 Rate

Notes

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

A vocals: Adelaide Hall

A side (mx. BVE-39371, take 1) recorded Camden, NJ, October 26, 1927.
B side (mx. BVE-41246, take 2) recorded at Liederkranz Hall, New York, NY, December 19, 1927.

Cutout date: 1930
Number of copies sold: 7852
(DAHR)

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Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 10th Dec 2022		I love it too. I would be excited if I found it at an estate sale. Unfortunately, in my area, it seems to have taken people until the late 1930s before they even discovered Duke Ellington.



cyeaman SUBS 10th Dec 2022		Thanks for your comments and corrections, xiphophilos. I love this record.



xiphophilos 9th Dec 2022		A side ("Blues I Love To Sing"): Also a lovely piece, with beautiful choruses by Bubber Miley on muted trumpet, Harry Carney on soprano sax, Tricky Sam Nanton on trombone, and a great, throaty scat vocal by Adelaide Hall. Maybe the record was overshadowed by "Creole Love Call" on Victor 21137, which was recorded on the same day as "The Blues I Love to Sing" (October 26, 1927) and features an even more impressive scat solo by Adelaide Hall. That song, backed by "Black and Tan Fantasy", had come out several months earlier, on February 3, 1928.(DAHR)



xiphophilos 9th Dec 2022		You mean, the December 19, 1927 session that yielded "Blue Bubbles." Here is the song. Quite a spirited version and a great example of the Ellington orchestra's early “jungle” sound. Strange that it wasn't an immediate hit:



cyeaman SUBS 9th Dec 2022		Victor 21490 was a Race release and records show it sold only 7852 copies before it was deleted in 1930. The record was subsequently reissued in the general catalog on Victor 22985 on June 2, 1932. That reissue sold only 3975 copies. These matrices were then transcribed for release on Bluebird B-6531 & B-6415 in 1936. The December 19, 1927 session at Liederkranz Hall that yielded "Blues I Love To Sing" is from the band's first session after they began their historic residence at The Cotton Club in Harlem earlier that month, on December 4, 1927.