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Artist: Art Hickman's Orchestra Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: A2811 Date: 20 Nov 1919 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  3 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	Art Hickman's Orchestra	My Baby's Arms	McCarthy, Tierney	Rate
B	Art Hickman's Orchestra	On The Streets Of Cairo	Hulten	Rate

Notes

A: from "Follies of 1919".

A side (mx. 78674, take 1 or 3) recorded New York, NY, September 18, 1919.
B side (mx. 78667, take 1, 2, 3) recorded New York, NY, September 17, 1919.
(DAHR)

Label printing date code:
JX (= October 1919)
DW (= April 1920)


Listed in Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), November 14, 1919, page 9: Art Hickman ad.

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Number: 1915335  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: concaveman Description: Columbia A2811 A side label (JX = October 1919 pressing)	Number: 1915336  Uploaded By: concaveman Description: Columbia A2811 B side label (JX = October 1919 pressing)	Number: 2947285  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Oakland Tribune, November 14, 1919, p. 9	Number: 2953915  Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: Columbia A2811 A side label (repress)
Number: 2953916  Uploaded By: edlongus SUBS Description: Columbia A2811 B side label (DW = April 1920 repress)

Comments and Reviews

edlongus SUBS 17th Apr 2022		Label variant scans added, with the new price of $1.00. The price increase is a sticker on the A side, and printed onto the label on the B side.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2019		As it turns out, this particular record, A2811, is listed as early as November 14, 1919 in the Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), page 9, together with A2812-2814. Even if you can only read the garbled text, like me, you can search the OCR text for "Cairo" or "My Baby's Arms", and you'll find this record. The Columbia ad where the record is listed is devoted especially to promoting Art Hickman's records. He was so popular that Columbia seems to have rushed his releases onto the market. A2811 is not listed in The Talking Machine World, Nov. 15, 1919, page 194, which proves my point that TMW does not give a complete listing of all record releases, not even for the major labels like Columbia and Victor.
xiphophilos 3rd Apr 2019		The Talking Machine World from Dec. 15, 1919, page 203, lists several catalog nr. close to A2811, namely A2802-2010 and A2815-2819. Why A2811-2814 are missing is a mystery to me. It should be said, though, that TMW is not all-comprehensive. Some records never get mentioned by it, while others are mentioned twice. I've noticed that when a popular record was repressed and reissued, it often appears a second time together with other, completely new releases. Maybe that's the case here. The Aug. 1920 listing could be the listing for a re-issue.
Bob1951 3rd Apr 2019		Something just doesn't connect here. Why print labels in Oct. 1919 and not release the recordings for another 10 months or so? The Talking Machine World article is most likely correct. Something may have happened to delay the release of these issues.
concaveman 3rd Apr 2019		Then I must stand corrected as to the release date. However, the July 15, 1920 issue of Talking Machine World lists A2811 among the advance releases for August 1920. And the same goes for A2812.
xiphophilos 2nd Apr 2019		A2812 was released in Jan. 1920. That's probably correct here too. I'd suspect, though, that we could find both records in the Dec. 15, 1919 Talking Machine World, which would move the release date ahead to Dec. 1919.
Bob1951 2nd Apr 2019		This record has a label printing date code of JX (Oct. 1919) on the label shown. The release date of listed as Aug. 1920 above, seems to be incorrect. DAHR lists 1920 as the release year but does not show the month.

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