78 RPM - Stephane Grappelly And His Hot Four - Avalon / Clouds - Decca - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Stephane Grappelly And His Hot Four
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	23002
Date:	Jul 1936
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Stephane Grappelly And His Hot Four	Avalon	Al Jolson, Vincent Rose	10.0 Rate
B	Stephane Grappelly And His Hot Four	Clouds	Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn	10.0 Rate

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with Django Reinhardt
Recorded in July 1935
Personality Series
Reissued with the same cat# as by The Quintet of the Hot Club of France with Django Reinhardt (guitar) & Stéphane Grappelly (violin)
- in 1941 as part of Decca Album No. 207 and red brown label
- around 1943 as part of Decca album no. 207 and black label

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xiphophilos 23rd Feb 2018		A side (on British Decca): B side:



fixbutte 21st Feb 2018		Decca's 23000 Personality Series apparently had an unusually slow start, with only about 80 releases in 30 months (alleging a wrong recording date for 23062-64 on http://www.78discography.com/Dec23000.htm, which has to be 1/21/38 with regard to the matrix numbers). Another evidence that lead me to the wrong guess of a much later start of the Personality Series was the use of the block lettering label, whereas the 500/1000 general series, 5000 country series and 7000 race series still used the sunburst label. See also http://patcosta.com/portfolio/decca/ for the different labels, misdating the disappearance of the sunburst label though (it was actually used until the end of 1937).



xiphophilos 20th Feb 2018		Decca's 23000 Personality Series started with Grace Moore's "What Shall Remain" / "The End Begins" in mid-1936 (Decca 23000). This record (but apparently with "Learn to Lose" on the B side) was reviewed in LIFE magazine, vol. 103 (August 1936), page 38, as follows: "Decca's Personality Series starts off with a dull thud thanks to a general lack of inspiration from all hands. Miss Moore had some pretty puerile lyrics to sell, and standing too close to the microphone didn't help matters." This confirms Frank Daniels' claims in his Decca label guide here. He says that the 23000 series started in 1936, three years before the 18000 series. From 23060 on, the recording dates of releases cluster around late January and early February 1938 (see here), so these records were probably released in 1938. The only apparent exception on ODP, Decca 23022, is a typo. These recordings are from Jan. 23, 1941, but their actual catalog number, per Ruppli's Decca discography, vol. 1, p. 143, is 23212.



fixbutte 18th Nov 2016		Released as one of the first singles in Decca's 23,000 Personality Series which probably started in 1939 although the first 60 numbers were recorded in earlier years (like this one from July 1935), see my comments on Decca 23006.

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USA - Decca - 1941