78 RPM - King Oliver - St. James Infirmary / When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) - Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	King Oliver
Label:	Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	22298
Date:	7 Mar 1930
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own
Price Guide:	$50
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PRICE GUIDE

$50

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	King Oliver	St. James Infirmary	Joe Primrose	10.0 Rate
B	King Oliver	When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)	Fisher, Goodwin, Shay	10.0 Rate

Notes

King Oliver And His Orchestra
A Side: mx BVE-58527-3, recorded New York City, Jan. 28, 1930.
B Side: mx BVE-58528-2, recorded New York City, Jan. 28, 1930.
Cutout date: 1934.
(DAHR)

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DeweyGill SUBS ● 6th Jun 2024		Added early pressing with “Blues” in the title. The flip is identical to existing image 1521040



xiphophilos 12th Dec 2017		Your version, Bob, must be the original one, which is why I have moved the images up. Soon afterwards, in mid-1930, the company name at the bottom of the label briefly changed to "Victor Talking Machine Division / Radio-victor Corporation of America", as on my record. In the summer of 1930, when the Radio-victor Corporation and the Audio-Vision Appliance Co. were merged, the name changed once again, to "RCA Victor Company, Inc.", and stayed this way until about May 1935. So since this record stayed in the catalogue till 1934, a third version of this record may yet emerge.



Bob1951 12th Dec 2017		Label variant images added. Different design at the bottom of labels.



xiphophilos 11th Jun 2015		B Side: The comments below the A Side video list the entire lineup and the sequence of solos for both A and B side: 1/28/30 NYC., KING OLIVER AND HIS ORCH.: King Oliver, Red Allen, Bubber Miley (c,t) James Archey (tb) Bobby Holmes (cl,ss) Glyn Paque (cl,as) Walter Wheeler (ts) Don Frye (p) Arthur Taylor (bj) Jean Stultz (g) Clinton Walker (bb) Carroll Dickerson (vln,ld) Frank Marvin (d,v) JSP-2CD-3404 3:37 ST. JAMES INFIRMARY -chimes&ens intro 4b-Miley mute 16b-Archey in ens brd 4b-vFM (Miley)24b-Frye 4b-Allen mute & Walker 8+6b, Archey brk-Holmes cl 8b-Allen 2b-ens 8b- arr. K.Oliver 3:17 WHEN YOU´RE SMILING - The Whole World Smiles With You -Miley mute-Archey 16b-Holmes ss 16b-vFM 32b(Dickerson &Stultz)-Allen 4&8b-Dickerson 8b-ens- Thanks also, fixbutte, for your comments. Very interesting, as always.



fixbutte 10th Jun 2015		I should not forget to mention that this record, just entered by xiphophilos, is brilliant. To simplify matters, I quote my own review for another site from some years ago: There are many ways to perform "St. James Infirmary" but this atmospheric and insightful early version belongs to the best ever recorded. As Robert W. Harwood, author of the book I Went Down to St. James Infirmary, comments, "From the opening bells it has a thoroughly composed feel, and yet it is full of vitality. ... this is one of my favourite versions of the song. " The band has a three trumpet lineup here but Henry "Red" Allen and James "Bubber" Miley handled most if not all of the trumpet parts on the recording (Miley contributed the introducing solo anyway) because gum disease was making it harder and more painful for Oliver to play the trumpet. Frank Marvin's cool vocals underline the dandyish mind of the singer, seeing his lover on her deathbed only to imagine his smart appearance on his own funeral: ... Let her go, let her go, God bless her, Wherever she may be, She can look this wide world over, She'll never find a sweet man like me. When I die, I want you to dress me in straight laced shoes, Box-back coat and a stetson hat, Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain, So the boys will know I died standing pat. ... This was the last chart hit (#9 in Feb 1930)* for the great King Oliver before he faded into obscurity. He died in poverty eight years later, at the age of 52, in Savannah, Georgia, where he had been working as a janitor. _______________ * according to Joel Whitburn's fictional charts in his Pop Memories 1890-1954 book, see this discussion.

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USA - Bluebird - 1934