78 RPM - Cootie Williams - Somebody's Gotta Go / Blue Garden Blues - Majestic - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Cootie Williams
Label:	Majestic
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	7148
Date:	Mar 1946
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Cootie Williams	Somebody's Gotta Go	Haggart	Rate
B	Cootie Williams	Blue Garden Blues	Haggart	Rate

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Cootie Williams And His Orchestra
A: Vocal by Eddie Vinson.
B: mistaken composer credit (actually a version of "Royal Garden Blues").
Recorded Aug 22, 1944, mx: T-449 (A), T-451 (B).
Previously issued on Hit / Majestic 7119 (A) and Hit / Majestic 7108 (B).

BB Mar 23, 1946, p. 32 (Advance Record Releases)
BB Mar 30, 1946, p. 33 (Review)

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fixbutte 21st Jan 2015		Deleted the "Side B is continuation of side A" bit from the notes and adjusted them. Most interestingly, the original issue of "Somebody's Gotta Go" on Hit / Majestic 7119 had a much more important B-side, the first-ever recorded version of Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight". Not Monk, however, but Earl „Bud“ Powell was the orchestra's piano player at that time.



slholzer 20th Jan 2015		Now that he's shown me the obvious, I have to concur with fixbutte that the Continued language applies to the personnel listing and probably not to the music at all. However, my original comment applies as much to that as it did to the hypothetical continuous piece of music. I don't think I've ever seen a 78 issuer split the personnel list this way. Usually, if they can't get them all on one side, they just don't bother listing them at all. How many times have you seen the exact same band detailed to the last man on both sides of the record when they could as easily have done this and made the whole thing more readable? It's minutia, I know, but it's still interesting.



fixbutte 20th Jan 2015		Looking at the record labels again, I'm now convinced that both the original contributor and slholzer have misinterpreted the "continued on/from other side" text there. It is apparently related only to the lineup of the orchestra, which was too extensive to imprint it on one record label.



fixbutte 20th Jan 2015		On closer inspection, this cannot be labeled as a continuous recording on two sides of the same disc, if the B-side is actually the previously released version of "Blue Garden Blues". Strangely, however, it is credited to Bob Haggart like "Somebody's Gotta Go", whereas in most discographies "Blue Garden Blues" is listed as a re-recording of the standard "Royal Garden Blues", and there is no composer credit for it on the original issue on Hit 7108. On the other hand, "Somebody's Gotta Go", as sung by Eddie Vinson, is an obvious rewriting of songs like "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town", much slower in tempo than the instrumental "Blue Garden Blues" as you can hear it on the web. "Somebody's Gotta Go": "Blue Garden Blues":



fixbutte 20th Jan 2015		The different titles of the two parts of the same recording may arise out of the fact that both sides had been issued before on two different records. "Blue Garden Blues" was a B-side on Hit 7108 (Sep 1944), "Somebody's Gotta Go" was a very successful side on Hit 7119 (Dec 1944), peaking at #1 of Billboard's R&B chart (then the Most-Played Juke Box Race Records chart). These two records were obviously first reissued with the same cat#s on the Majestic label in 1945 when the Majestic Radio Co. acquired Hit Records from Eli Oberstein. Like in several other cases, Majestic was still not content with it, and this new coupling was issued, though not in 1944 as originally entered but in March 1946.



slholzer 16th Jan 2015		This is a rarity in recorded music. The recording is apparently a continuous recording on two sides of the same disc, but the titles are different on each side. I'm curious if this is a single piece of music that evolved sufficiently in the course of playing to become two distinct pieces, or is it more mundanely just two different pieces that were jammed so together in performance that it was simpler to present it this way.