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Artist: The Synco Jazz Band Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: A2783 Date: Oct 1919 Format: 10" Genre: Pop, Jazz Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  7 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Waldorf-Astoria Singing Orchestra	Tell Me	Kortlander, Calahan	Rate
B	The Synco Jazz Band	Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)	Hanley	Rate

Notes

A: Introducing: "Drop Me Down In Dixieland" (Kortlander, Calahan); Joseph Knecht, Director; Incidental Chorus by Irving Kaufman.
B: Introducing: "Dixie Is Dixie Once More" (Karp).

Calahan (sic) is the lyricist J. Will Callahan.

A side (mx .78552, take 2) recorded New York, NY, July 11, 1919;
A side (mx .78552, take 6) New York, NY, recorded September 5, 1919 (used on represses)
B side (mx. 78589, take 2 or 3) recorded New York, NY, July 22, 1919.
(DAHR)

Label printing codes:
IX / IX = September 1919.
IX / JX = early repress, October 1919: the JX label credits the Waldorf-Astoria Dance Orchestra (not Singing Orchestra)

The Columbia Republican [Hudson, NY], October 14, 1919, page 7: Dealer ad: Columbia Records November 1919.
The Saturday Evening Post, October 25, 1919, page 131: Columbia ad: "New November Numbers of Columbia Records."
The DeKalb Daily Chronicle, October 31, 1919, page 4: Columbia dealer ad "Columbia Records for November" (i.e., actually released in late October).

Images

Number: 999927  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Columbia A2783 A side label (IX = Sept. 1919)

Number: 999926  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Columbia A2783 B side label (IX = Sept. 1919)

Number: 1463812  Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: Columbia A2783 A side label (take 3?) (JX = Oct. 1919, early repress)

Number: 1463811  Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: Columbia A2783 B side label (take 3?) (IX = Sept. 1919; early repress coupled with JX)

Comments and Reviews

edlongus SUBS 24th Jan 2019		Well, I know ONE thing: Phonograph records sure were expensive in those days!! $85 cents up 2 $1.50?!? I used 2 pay $0.79 cents 4 singles back in the early 1970s!! No wonder we presently own these 100 year old records - they were a luxury back then, and folks who could afford them took good care of them!! ☺
xiphophilos 23rd Jan 2019		Now that we know what the label codes mean, I am really confused. Apparently, my copy, with IX (= Sept. 1919) on both sides, must be older after all than Ed's copy with IX on one, but JX on the other side, despite the fact that his labels bear the older design that still includes the 1901 patent date. Any explanation? Did Columbia have two pressing plants simultaneously at the time?
xiphophilos 2nd Oct 2017		Your label variants, Ed, represent the earlier label design, Columbia's label sub-variety iii: 6 patents in 2 lines, used between ca. 1918-19, so they must be from the original 1919 release. Interestingly, both sides have different letter codes: the A side shows IX; the B side, JX. My labels, in contrast, are an example of label sub-variety iv: 5 patents in 2 lines, used between ca. 1919-1920, here both with the IX letter code. I assume that my copy is a very early repress. (Label design info based on Mike Sherman & Kurt Nauck, "Note The Notes: An Illustrated History of the Columbia Record Label 1901-1958," p. 28). Since they are earlier, I've moved your labels to the front, Ed.
edlongus SUBS 1st Oct 2017		Slight label variant scans added (right-center 'Dance Music' placement).

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