78 RPM - Duke Ellington - Mood Indigo / The Mooche - Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Duke Ellington
Label:	Victor / RCA Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	24486
Date:	27 Dec 1933
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	9 Own
Price Guide:	$87
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PRICE GUIDE

$87

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Duke Ellington	Mood Indigo	Ellington, Bigard, Mills	Rate
B	Duke Ellington	The Mooche	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	Rate

Notes

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

A mx: BVE-47799 (take 2); recorded New York, NY, October 10, 1928.
B mx: BVE-64811 (take 4); recorded New York, NY, December 10, 1930.
(DAHR)

Previously released, but not in this combination, on Victor 22587-A ("Mood Indigo"), 1931, and Victor V-38034-A ("The Mooche"), 1929.
Reissued on the RCA Victor label in Sept. 1946 and later.

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Comments and Reviews


cyeaman SUBS 15th Jun 2022		Added images of early repress on Victor Scroll labels crediting RCA Manufacturing Company on the A-side and RCA Victor Company, Inc. on the B-side.



fixbutte 13th Jul 2020		I guess (but don't know) that the accurate 27 Dec 1933 date comes from The Victor Black Label Discography – 22000, 23000, 24000, V‐38000, V‐38500 and V‐40000 Series by John R. Bolig who uses "data shown as they appear in the ledgers" of Victor. Although the last volume with the Victor 25000, 26000, 27000 Series is available online, the older ones aren't.



igneous_rock 13th Jul 2020		I'd love to know what prompted the change of release date from January 1934 to December 1933. Do I need to learn a secret handshake first?



xiphophilos 24th Jan 2019		A side, as originally released as the A side of Victor 22587: B side (on 1946-47 RCA Victor):



xiphophilos 24th Jan 2019		Coveboy, your labels are a 1937-1941 Camden repress.



coveboy 24th Jan 2019		to confuse things more here are my scans. A side is different



fixbutte 16th Aug 2016		Thanks for confirming my previous comment, W.B.lbl - and of course, adding something more.



W.B.lbl 16th Aug 2016		Was obviously in the catalogue for many years prior to the label name change, as {Image #670959} was the 1937-43 'Circular' variant, {Image #670935} being the 1943-46 variation. {Images #1132360 & 1132364} would have actually been pressed (in Camden, NJ) between 1946 and 1947, given the patent number reference; after 1947, such reference was struck from the label design. Oh, and any idea what 47-#### release would have been the 45 RPM equivalent of this coupling, when RCA Victor first unveiled that format in 1949?



xiphophilos 16th Aug 2016		Uploaded RCA Victor re-presses.



fixbutte 16th Feb 2015		Finally, I have found out where the "25 Mar 1950" date came from. In 1950, there was 'The Honor Roll of Popular Songwriters' series in the Billboard magazine, and in the issue of that date Duke Ellington was the addressed songwriter. Attached was a list of 'Duke Ellington's Best Known Songs And Recordings Available'. Among them, "Mood Indigo" was listed as available particularly on Victor 24486 (although recorded on Dec 10, 1930, it was listed under the year '1934', probably because it was the release year of this specific record). As said before, this doesn't make 1950 the release year of the RCA Victor issue. Moreover, it wasn't the last year when this record was available. In the Billboard issue of Sep 15, 1951, there was an article on 'The Top Active Songwriters and Records of Their Greatest Songs'. Both "The Mooche" and "Mood Indigo" were listed there as still being available on (RCA) Victor 24486. This means that this record, regardless of World War II and a label change, was available for at least 18 years, and probably even longer. As one would expect, this went along with different label designs. The original 1934 Victor label was the "Scroll" label, which ran from 1926 to 1937 (not uploaded yet). It was followed by the Circular label, running from 1937 to 1953 with a change from Victor to RCA Victor in 1946. The labels displayed here are such Circular labels, but not from the same record. The company name around the outside of the bottom label is 'RCA Manufacturing Co. Inc.' on the A-side, whereas the later 'RCA Victor Division of Radio Corporation of America' appears on the B-side. That change of the company name took place mid 1943. For the different Victor labels, see http://majesticrecord.com/labelsvictor.htm.



fixbutte 13th Feb 2015		SeberHusky had added his RCA Victor issue of the record with the release date "25 Mar 1950", the source of which I cannot track down. I can say, however, that this record, with two of the biggest Duke Ellington hits reissued, first came out with this cat# on the Victor label around Jan 1934. When the label was changed to RCA Victor early in 1946, many numbers of long sellers were kept. So the first RCA Victor issue with this cat# should be from 1946 although I cannot exclude a later release year for that issue. Anyway, all records with this cat# should be filed under its first release on Victor, with the RCA Victor label put into the 'Other Labels'.



Balto1987 1st Feb 2015		Unfortunately my copy of this record is also shattered as well as chipped. :-(

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