78 RPM - Al Jolson - April Showers / Swanee - Decca - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Al Jolson
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	23470
Date:	Nov 1946
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	6 Own
Price Guide:	$35
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PRICE GUIDE

$35

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Al Jolson	April Showers	Louis Silvers, B. G. DeSylva	Rate
B	Al Jolson	Swanee	George Gershwin, Irving Caesar	Rate

Notes

Certain discs were used as part of Album A-469 and were marked so
Featured in Columbia Picture "The Jolson Story".
With Orchestra directed by Carmen Dragon.
Versions of the album A-469 discs exist both with and without A/B side designations.

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Comments and Reviews


benchwarrant17 14th Oct 2021		both sides recorded August 10, 1945 Los Angeles



BigBadBluesMan 11th Sep 2021



BigBadBluesMan 11th Sep 2021



W.B.lbl 28th May 2018		Records without A/B designators on the label - and with a star after the matrix number on the B side - were pressed after 1949. This was clearly a big seller for Decca, and therefore differing label variants would have been spaced over the years. Incidentally, the main font used by the typesetters who handled Decca was Cheltenham Bold, the matrix numbers and indicators on the right were set in Cheltenham Roman. (Co-Service Printing also used 6 point Metrolight with Metrobold No. 2; the printer that laid out type for Richmond, IN used 6 point Bell Gothic.)



slholzer 1st Feb 2018		There are at least three label variants of this disc extant. All of the versions I have seen are album versions. If there is a non-album single version, then there would be at least one and possibly more additional variants.. One difference is that some discs have A/B side designations while others do not. The illustrated version, for example, does not. I do not know if a label corresponding to this one but with A/B's exists. Another difference is most readily spotted by looking at the large number that indicates which side of the album you are looking at. The illustrated version uses a Times New Roman style number for this. Other versions exist that use a less robust but taller font for that number. I have seen that type both with and without A/B designations.