Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Vocal Chorus by Dolores Parker
A: Recorded Sep 1, 1947, mx: HCO 2598-1, B: Recorded Sep 29, 1947, mx: HCO 2655-1; Columbia Studio Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA.
BB Dec 6, 1947, p. 33 (Review)
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Number:815219 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By:xiphophilos Description: Columbia 37957 A Side Label (ca. December 1947 repress with 1948-1950 label style on B side)
Number:815220 Uploaded By:xiphophilos Description: Columbia 37957 B Side Label (ca. December 1947 repress with 1946-1947 label style on A side)
W.B.lbl comments:
"It sounds like some zinc molds with 1702564 listed on the label were still hanging around at the time of the May 1948 20000 switch, parallel to the no patent label design. Not the first or last time that pressing plants would have something inapplicable to the moment on their grounds."
This record combines two different CBS label styles:
1. the 1946-1948 CBS label with two lines of patent text under COLUMBIA, listing patent 1702564 and
2. the 1948-1950 CBS label on glossy label stock with two lines of patent text under COLUMBIA that no longer lists patent 1702564,
cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," pages 9 and 35.
The last Bridgeport example of the first label style that we currently have in our database is Columbia 37991, released November 24, 1947; by December 1, 1947 Bridgeport seems to have switched to the new label style.
Strangely enough, there are outliers, and all of them seem to be Kings Mills, Ohio pressings:
Frankie Yankovic on Columbia 38072 from Jan. 1948, The Big Three Trio on Columbia 30110 from February 1948 and Claude Thornhill on Columbia 38136 from March 1948 and Al Dexter on Columbia 38168 from March 22, 1948, Dick Reinhart on Columbia 20433 from May 3, 1948, and Arthur Godfrey on Columbia 38195 from May 10, 1948.
Only in June 1948, just before the plant shut down, did Kings Mills briefly switch to the new label without patent 1702564, cf. Columbia 38224.
The two apparent exceptions are two Bridgeport pressings that may have been misdated:
Bob Wills on Columbia 20412 from Feb. 1948 (if praguefrank's date is correct), and
Bob Wills on Columbia 20055, which this database currently dates to May 1948, whereas Praguefrank (probably in error) calls it a July 1946 release.