78 RPM - Count Basie - Count Basie At The Piano - Decca

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Count Basie
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	Album No. 152 / A-152
Date:	1940
Format:	Album
Title:	Count Basie At The Piano
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	$25
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PRICE GUIDE

$25

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Count Basie	Boogie Woogie	Smith	Rate
B	Count Basie	How Long How Long Blues	Leroy Carr	Rate
C	Count Basie	The Dirty Dozens	Speckled Red	Rate
D	Count Basie	When The Sun Goes Down	Leroy Carr	Rate
E	Count Basie	Hey Lawdy Mama	Easton	Rate
F	Count Basie	The Fives	Richard Jones, J. Mayo Williams	Rate
G	Count Basie	Oh! Red	McCoy	Rate
H	Count Basie	Fare Thee Honey Fare Thee Well	Alston	Rate
I	Count Basie	Dupree Blues	White	Rate
J	Count Basie	Red Wagon	Jones	Rate

Notes

Count Basie at the Piano: with Fred Green, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Joe Jones, drums.

First available as a five-record album Decca Album No. 152 with blue labels, consisting of records no. 2355, 2498, 2722, 2780, and 3071.

Reissued in 1948 as four-record album Decca A-152 with black labels, consisting of records no. 2355, 2498, 2722, 4461 (two tracks "Red Wagon" and "Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well" were removed)

Sides A, B, C, E, F recorded Nov. 9, 1938 in New York, New York
Sides D, G, H, I, J recorded Jan. 26, 1939 in New York, New York

A mx (64735)
B mx (64731)
C mx (64732)
D mx (64957)
E mx (64733)
F mx (64734)
G mx (64954)
H mx (64955) - removed on 4-record album
I mx (64956) - H (Side 8) on 4-record album
J mx (64958) - removed on 4-record album

Images

Number: 1916779 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: fixbutte Edited By: fixbutte Description: Decca album 152 original front cover (red spine & hand-drawn Decca logo)	Number: 1903912 Uploaded By: xiphophilos ● Edited By: xiphophilos Description: Decca album 152 original back cover (red spine & hand-drawn Decca logo)	Number: 1903748 Uploaded By: KeithS SUBS Description: original Album No. 152 - inside cover	Number: 1901379 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Edited By: KeithS Description: Decca album A-152 repress front cover (eight titles, brown spine)
Number: 1901380 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Edited By: xiphophilos Description: Decca album A-152 repress inside front cover	Number: 1901381 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: A side label	Number: 1901382 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: B side label	Number: 1901383 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: C side label
Number: 1901384 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: D side label	Number: 1901385 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: E side label	Number: 1901386 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: F side label	Number: 1901387 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: G side label
Number: 2436529 Uploaded By: fixbutte Description: I Side Label (Original Side 9)	Number: 1904285 Uploaded By: Bob1951 Description: I side label (Side 8 on Reissue)	Number: 1903911 HIDDEN Uploaded By: xiphophilos ● Description: Decca album 152 original front cover (red spine & hand-drawn Decca logo)

Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos ● 23rd Mar 2019		The images on ebay don't actually look like anything now here on the site. Moreover, this discussion of the different cover variants seems to comply even with wikipedia's rules for fair use, which is stricter than U.S. copyright law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content#cite_note-3 Discogs defines Fair Use as: "Fair Use – any image representing a physical or digital product in the Discogs Database for the purpose of critical commentary or for the purpose of reselling the work under the First Sale Doctrine" (my bold font). By the way, the font style on the older (1940) cover with the hand-drawn Decca logo reminds me of the font on earlier red & gold-label Decca Personality records that were issued as part of these albums. So my guess would be that the original discs had these red labels with gold text. The differences in the inside pages are also interesting. The older photo montage looks like a LIFE magazine photo feature - maybe that's what people expected when they bought a "Personality-Series" album. I have a Carmen Miranda album that does the same thing. The later repress, in contrast, offers the kind of text discussion of the music that I'd have expected to see on the back of an LP cover.



JLC135 22nd Mar 2019		Adding Images guide: ".. we can't accept images from eBay etc for copyright reasons." Did you get permission to use them here?



fixbutte 22nd Mar 2019		Here is a current eBay offer for the original 5-record album with great images of the item (including a photograph of the recording unit) that need to be photoshopped though. Maybe you can do that, Keith? For the moment I have uploaded the inside photograph as distorted as it is pictured there.



fixbutte 22nd Mar 2019		Great minds think alike, Keith ;-)



KeithS SUBS 22nd Mar 2019		There are many sets that look as though they just chucked in anything available..even seen red labels and even Decca Gold mixed in..here's a few 35 Deanna Durbin 1097, 1471 and 2274 140 Bing Crosby 886,1175, 1616, 2275, 1518 and 1845 A152 Count Basie 2355, 2498, 2722, 4461 153 Woody Herman 1801, 2508, 2582, 2629, 3500 and 3501 181 Bing Crosby 2374, 1044, 3540, 3541, 3542 and 3543 190 Al Kealoha Perry 3412, 3457, 3484 and 3534 191 Ray Kinney 3095, 3264, 3402, 3535 and 3536 192 Al Kealoha Perry 3411, 3439, 3537 and 3538 first two unmarked 193 Various Artists 1265, 3299, 3046, 3047 and 3048 194 Clara Inter 3361, 3430 and 3475 and those are just out of my list of the first 200 album numbers



fixbutte 22nd Mar 2019		There were several earlier Decca albums that included nonconsecutive record numbers, e.g. Album No. 140, and already Album No. 10 had one. But besides that, this was not the first issue of the Basie album anyway. Your four-record album with the boxed Decca logo is from 1948, the first one with the Decca letters drawn by the cover artist had an additional fifth record to include "Fare Thee Honey, Fare Thee Well" and "Red Wagon", and was released in 1940 (cat# Album No. 140, not A-140), see here. The original album contained: Disc # 2355 A/B Boogie Woogie b/w How Long How Long Blues Disc # 2498 A/B The Dirty Dozen b/w When The Sun Goes Down Disc # 2722 A/B Hey Lawdy Mama b/w The Fives Disc # 2780 A/B Oh! Red b/w Fare Thee Honey Fare Thee Well Disc # 3071 A/B Dupree Blues b/w Red Wagon see here.



Bob1951 22nd Mar 2019		This is the first album that I have seen that does not use consecutive cat. #.'s. There may be others, I don't know. It appears like Decca just threw together a few former issues and put them in this album without any attempt to make it look like a new or re-issue album. Most albums that I have seen have the catalogue numbers on the labels in consecutive order.