78 RPM - Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit / Fine And Mellow - Commodore - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Billie Holiday
Label:	Commodore
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	526
Date:	May 1939
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	17 Own, 5 Want
Price Guide:	$178
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Notes

Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra
A: Piano Interlude by Sonny White.
B: Trumpet Obligato by Frankie Newton.

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Comments and Reviews


W.B.lbl 18th Oct 2021		I could have told you {Images #1733131 & 1733132} should come first, followed by {Images #417274 & 417275} and going from there. First of all, very first-pressings were by Columbia Bridgeport, then by 1944 (when they were at 136 East 42nd) they had switched to another pressing plant (and Scranton-based Keystone as typesetter/printer).



bolit3 18th Oct 2021		The adress 136 East 42nd Street at the bottom of the labels is found on later issues e. g. Commodore 555: I Got Rhythm / Jo Jo from 1944. Commodore labels from 1938 early 1939 has (most probably) the adress 144 East 42nd Street The first issues of Commodore 526 are (most probably) found with the address 46 West 52nd Street.



LaurenceD SUBS ● 16th Oct 2018		Added alternate labels. The recording dates shown on these make me think that they are later pressings, perhaps from 1946 as mentioned in this Billboard ad.



Bob1951 16th Aug 2018		Label variant images added.



BigBadBluesMan 21st Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 21st Feb 2015



xiphophilos ● 6th Feb 2014		Billie Holiday And Her Orchestra: Tab Smith (as), Kenneth Hollon, Stanley Payne (ts), Frankie Newton (t), Jimmy McLin (g), John Williams (b), Sonny White (p), Eddie Dougherty (d), Billie Holiday (voc). mx WP24403B "Strange Fruit" (Lewis Allan, a.k.a. Abe Meeropol), piano interlude by Sonny White. mx WP24405A "Fine And Mellow" (Billie Holiday), trumpet obligato by Frankie Newton. Recorded New York City, April 20, 1939.