78 RPM - Frank Sinatra - All Or Nothing At All / Flash - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Frank Sinatra
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	35587
Date:	1943
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	13 Own
Price Guide:	$28
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PRICE GUIDE

$28

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Frank Sinatra	All Or Nothing At All	Lawrence, Altman	6.0 Rate
B	Harry James	Flash	James	10.0 Rate

Notes

Harry James and his Orchestra
A: vocal chorus by Frank Sinatra.

A side (mx. CO 25288) recorded New York, NY, August 31, 1939.
B side (mx. LA 2044) recorded Los Angeles, CA, November 8, 1939.

This 1943 re-release of the original Columbia 35587 from 1940 lists the artists on A as "Frank Sinatra with Harry James and his Orchestra." This version, in which Sinatra receives the main billing on the A side, sold 1,000,000 copies.

At least three versions of the A side exist:
A a) "- Lawrence - Altman - Fox Trot Featuring" all on the same line, "with" on a separate line between "Frank Sinatra" and "Harry James and his Orchestra".
A b) "- Lawrence - Altman -" and "Fox Trot Featuring" on two lines, "with" in front of "Harry James"
A c) "- Lawrence - Altman - Fox Trot" and "Featuring" on two lines, "with" right after "Frank Sinatra"

The B side layout also differs.
A a) and A b) are coupled with
B a) Last line of personnel listing is "Mickey Scrima"

A c) is coupled with
B b) Last line of personnel listing is "Scrima"

The 1946-1948 repress with only 2 lines of patent text below COLUMBIA features
A d) "Fox Trot - Lawrence - Altman -" and "Featuring" on two lines, "with" right after "Frank Sinatra"
coupled with
B b) Last line of personnel listing is "Scrima"

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Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 2nd Feb 2023		Thanks for adding the link to that Metroblack Nr. 2 font. Now I can see that the numbers do indeed agree with this Metroblack typeface. I didn't realize that there were two different variants of Metroblack: one used by Columbia's Romaine Street Hollywood plant, one by Bert-Co in Hollywood. The pointy N in the word Nothing also looks clearly like the N in the Metroblack Nr. 2 sample that you shared.



W.B.lbl 2nd Feb 2023		Here, the numerals are shaped differently - WAY differently. As in: https://typographica.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Metro_BigRed-p637.jpg That used by Bert-Co - and is in today's computer type rendition - was a second variant. 35707 is a whole 'nother animal (and printer). That did have Futura Demi.



xiphophilos 2nd Feb 2023		We do have two other Columbia records from the early 1950s that you've also identified as Bert-Co Hollywood pressings with catalog numbers in 12 point Metroblack No. 2: Columbia 39708 from 1952 Columbia 39945 from 1953 In both cases, the cat. nr. 3 seems to be less open than the 3 here, and the 5 less slanted and less open in its lower half. Is that just an optical illusion because the later records use so much more ink? In contrast, on Columbia 35707, the catalog number on the last two labels (images #1861552 & 1861553) looks very similar to the one on the labels in question here (images 3198843 & 3198844), and I thought that it was set in 10 point Futura Demibold, cf. the font sample at https://www.flickr.com/photos/28813954@N02/8200238884/in/photostream/



W.B.lbl 1st Feb 2023		{Images #3198843 & 3198844} is in fact a Hollywood pressing (their West Coast plant then on Romaine Street, first opened around 1935 when American Record Corp. owned the label), mostly predominant in Metroblack No. 2 (6, 7 and 10 point sizes used) - but the personnel on Side B set in 6 point Cloister Bold. It is not known which printer used this font combo, but what is known is that Capitol used that very same printer for their Los Angeles plant's label printing needs up to 1950 when they up and switched to Bert-Co (the numerals of whose Metroblack No. 2 sizes differed significantly).



xiphophilos 28th Jan 2023		Added a fifth label variant, a Bridgeport pressing that dates to 1944. The most conspicuous difference may be the catalog number, which is set in 10-point Futura Demibold instead of the 14 point Condensed No. 1 typical for earlier and later pressings. The song titles are also set in a distinctive typeface, probably Gothic Condensed No. 1 on the A side and Gothic Extended on the B side.



xiphophilos 2nd Sep 2020		Have tried to arrange the 4 different label versions of Harry James million-copy seller in what I think may be the chronological order.



xiphophilos 17th May 2016		A side: B Side:

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USA - Columbia - 1940

Canada - Columbia - 1943