78 RPM - Duke Ellington - Black And Tan Fantasy / What Can A Poor Fellow Do? - OKeh - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Duke Ellington
Label:	OKeh
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	40955
Date:	15 Jan 1928
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$173
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PRICE GUIDE

$173

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Duke Ellington	Black And Tan Fantasy	Miley, Ellington	Rate
B	Duke Ellington	What Can A Poor Fellow Do?	Meyers, Schoebel	Rate

Notes

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

A: recorded November 3, 1927. Mx. W81776B.
B: recorded November 3, 1927. Mx. W81775A.

The Talking Machine World, January 1928, page 120: "List for January 15"

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Mike Gann 9th Dec 2021



Mike Gann 9th Dec 2021



bolit3 6th Apr 2019		Images of my two copies of Okeh 8521 can be found on facebook. The Rarest 78's



xiphophilos 30th Apr 2017		A year later, in 1929, Duke Ellington played “Black and Tan Fantasy”, “Black Beauty”, “The Duke Steps Out”, and “Cotton Club Stomp” in a Harlem Renaissance movie called "Black and Tan Fantasy”, his debut in the movies, alongside dancer Ferdi Washington. A restored copy of the movie is available on Youtube:



fixbutte 20th Dec 2016		Strangely, this was already the second issue of the same record on OKeh, released on January 15, 1928, only a few weeks after OKeh 8521 which came out on December 5, 1927 in the Race Records series. As it was apparently available only for a short time, I have never seen an image of OKeh 8521 although that issue definitely exists (with red labels) as offers on the web show. OKeh 40955 was part of the Dance Music series and is rather common with the black labels as shown here (which may have been the original color) but it also occurs with red labels like the Race Records series had. Another proof that the order of matrix numbers doesn't matter, "Black And Tan Fantasy", the much better known side today, was also the A-side according to the Latest Record Bulletins in the Talking Machine World. Already recorded by Ellington for the third time here, the OKeh version came out after the Brunswick record ("Soliloquy" / "Black and Tan Fantasy", credited to The Washingtonians, on Brunswick 3526 - recorded on April 7, 1927, and released on July 28, 1927) but before Victor's hit record ("Creole Love Call" / "Black and Tan Fantasie" on Victor 21137 - recorded on October 26, 1927, and released on February 3, 1928).