78 RPM - Frank Hutchison - Worried Blues / The Train That Carried The Girl From Town - OKeh - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Frank Hutchison
Label:	OKeh
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	45114
Date:	Jul 1927
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 1 Wants
Price Guide:	$109
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PRICE GUIDE

$109

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Frank Hutchison	Worried Blues		Rate
B	Frank Hutchison	The Train That Carried The Girl From Town		Rate

Notes

Singing with Instrumental Accomp.
Recorded April 29, 1927, mx: 80-782 (A), 80-783 (B).

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Comments and Reviews


78-Ron 21st Feb 2023		Black labels added



these4578s 8th Sep 2015		The release date of this isn't so clear - p. 191 of Talking Machine World (Jul - Dec 1927) has Okeh 45111-45113 released on June 25 and 45115-45117 released on July 5, with no mention of 45114 whatsoever in the subsequent months. Initially it seems to make no sense, but if this disc was released to replace the Truetone-recorded 45064, maybe they wouldn't necessarily announce it, but send 45114 if somebody requested 45064. In any case I've got it as July 1927 as it's not possible to determine which date it belongs to



fixbutte 29th Apr 2015		This may well be the case. As you can see on OKeh 8419 from January 1927, the OKeh record labels didn't have an "Electric" imprint under the OKeh logo then. This imprint must have been introduced early in that year. Looking at Louis Armstrong's OKeh record labels, it seems that "Skid-Dat-De-Dat" / "Jazz Lips" on OKeh 8436, released around Feb 1927, was the first one with the "Electric" imprint. In contrast, his 1926 and early 1927 recordings carry a "Produced by Truetone Process" imprint on the label. Having found out this, I came across a very interesting web article by Björn Englund, saying that OKeh got access to the excellent Western Electric electrical recording system after it was taken over by Columbia in November 1926. Before that, however, they had their own inferior electrical recording system: The only technically deficient recordings made by OKeh are the electrical titles made by OKeh’s own Truetone system from April 19 to October 29, 1926 (matrix numbers 80001 to 80198). This was OKeh’s own electrical recording system, devised by Charles Hibbard in an attempt to circumvent the swingeing licensing fees and royalties demanded by Bell Laboratories for the use of their Western electric recording system. That the Truetone system was fatally flawed can by gauged from the fact that fully 73 of these 198 titles were rejected and at least 14 of them were remade and issued using the acoustic process (the last two were the great Clarence Williams titles Would Ja?/ Senegalese Stomp from 29/10/26, remade acoustically 10/12/26). Even after OKeh got their own Western Electric system two titles by Esther Bigeou from 21/12/26 were remade acoustically the same day! Considering the matrix numbers of the original recordings, it rather seems that these two sides by Frank Hutchison were recorded electrically twice, but the first electrical "Truetone" recordings (mx. 80143 and 80144) were discarded six months later.



thebluesneverdie 29th Apr 2015		Were these re-recorded "Electrically" to replace the earlier "Acoustical" takes. Many companies were doing this at that time, although some companies (i.e. Victor) did use the same catalogue numbers for the electrical re-recordings..



fixbutte 29th Apr 2015		For reasons that I don't know, both sides were re-recordings of Frank Hutchison's first recordings, made for the same label on September 28, 1926. The original recording of "Worried Blues" had matrix number 80143, "Train That Carried the Girl From Town" had mx# 80144. Both sides were issued on Okeh 45064 in 1926.



BigBadBluesMan 7th Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 7th Feb 2015