78 RPM - Bessie Smith - Bleeding Hearted Blues / Midnight Blues - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Bessie Smith
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	A3936
Date:	Aug 1923
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
Price Guide:	$23
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PRICE GUIDE

$23

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Bessie Smith	Bleeding Hearted Blues	Lovie Austin	Rate
B	Bessie Smith	Midnight Blues	Babe Thompson, Spencer Williams	Rate

Notes

Bessie Smith, Comedienne ('Exclusive Artist' at Pressing)
Fletcher Henderson at the Piano

A side (mx. 81075, take 3) recorded New York, NY, June 14, 1923.
B side (mx. 81080, take 3) recorded New York, NY, June 15, 1923.

The Talking Machine World, August 15, 1923, page 162: Record Bulletins for September, 1923 (actually released in late August 1923) and page 68 (Columbia ad).

Images

Number: 1035242

THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: GumboStu
Description: Columbia A3936 A side label (Sept.-Nov. 1923 repress with Exclusive Artist phrase)

Number: 1035243

Uploaded By: GumboStu
Description: Columbia A3936 B side label (Sept.-Nov. 1923 repress with Exclusive Artist phrase)

Number: 1037536

Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: Columbia ad, TMW, Aug 15, 1923

Number: 1037572

Uploaded By: fixbutte
Description: TMW Article, August 15, 1923, p. 20

Comments and Reviews


xiphophilos 12th Aug 2021		Bessie Smith signed an exclusive recording contract with Columbia on April 20, 1923, but her earliest Columbia releases do not yet bear the "Exclusive Artist" branding, cf. Columbia A3844 (May 1923) Columbia A3877 (June 1923) Columbia A3888 (June 1923) Columbia A3898 (July 1923) Columbia A3900 (July 1923) Columbia A3936 (August 1923) [this record here] Columbia A3939 (August 1923) The first Exclusive Artist release is Columbia A3942 (September 1923) Thus, this Exclusive Artist branded label is a repress from Sept.-Nov. 1923 (in Dec. 1923, the Flag label was introduced). Similarly, all catalog numbers originally released before Sept. 1923 but with Exclusive Artist on the label are represses.



fixbutte 22nd Apr 2016		Another Columbia ad from Talking Machine World uploaded, showing that this record was already available in mid-August 1923, although it was announced in the "Advance Record Bulletins for September, 1923" of the same issue of the magazine. A small article in the same August 1923 issue confirms, "Bessie Smith's Records Popular" (uploaded as well).



GumboStu 19th Apr 2016



GumboStu 19th Apr 2016