78 RPM - Al Jolson - Al Jolson In Songs He Made Famous: Featured In The Columbia Picture "The Jolson Story" - Decca

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Al Jolson
Label:	Decca
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	A-469
Date:	Nov 1946
Format:	Album
Title:	Al Jolson In Songs He Made Famous: Featured In The Columbia Picture "The Jolson Story"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	17 Own
Price Guide:	$74
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PRICE GUIDE

$74

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Al Jolson	April Showers	Louis Silvers, B. G. DeSylva	Rate
B	Al Jolson	Swanee	George Gershwin, Irving Caesar	Rate
C	Al Jolson	California, Here I Come	Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva	Rate
D	Al Jolson	Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody	Jean Schwartz, Sam Lewis, Joe Young	Rate
E	Al Jolson	You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)	James V. Monaco, Joe McCarthy	Rate
F	Al Jolson	Ma Blushin' Rosie (Ma Posie Sweet)	John Stromberg, Edgar Smith	Rate
G	Al Jolson	Sonny Boy	Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson	Rate
H	Al Jolson	My Mammy	Walter Donaldson, Sam Lewis, Joe Young	Rate

Notes

4-record 78rpm album, consisting of Decca 23470, 23612, 23613, 23614

Side 1 ("April Showers"): mx L3913
Side 2 ("Swanee"): mx L3912,
both: Vocal with Orchestra directed by Carmen Dragon

Side 3 ("California, Here I Come"): mx L4141,
Side 4 ("Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody"): mx L4140
both: Vocal with Orchestra directed by Morris Stoloff

Side 5 ("You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)"): mx L4128
Side 6 ("Ma Blushin' Rosie (Ma Posie Sweet)"): mx L4126
both: Vocal with Orchestra directed by Morris Stoloff

Side 7 ("Sonny Boy"): mx L4142
Side 8 ("My Mammy"): mx L4127
both: Vocal with Orchestra directed by Morris Stoloff

BB 26 Oct 1946 p.34 [Advance Record Releases]
BB 21 Dec 1946 p.33 [Album Reviews]
BB 18 Jan 1947 p.23 [Best-Selling Popular Record Albums] (1st week, #5)

Also issued on 45rpm in 1950 as box set 9-9, consisting of 9-23470, 9-23612, 9-23613 and 9-23614

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Comments and Reviews


Bob1951 19th May 2019		Sides 1 and 2 label variant images added. Both sides have the word "SIDES" in upper case letters and the 1 on side 1 is different from any of the other side 1 ones.



Bob1951 15th Mar 2017		Label variant images added for record 23612 sides 3 and 4. Different spacing in credits and number font is different also.



Trainman 5th Jan 2016		Added discs 2-4 (sides 3-8) in the label variant with the "A/B' markings. so now we have all four discs in the later label



xiphophilos 10th May 2015		Added some label variants; now A and B Side are marked as such with the letters A and B behind the catalog number.



W.B.lbl ● 7th May 2015		Of the discs currently shown here, Decca 23470 {Images #740242 & 740243} and 23614 {Images #740246 & 740247} bear label typesetting from Co-Service Printing of Newark, NJ and therefore appear to be pressed in Bridgeport, CT (again, where Decca had a pressing plant in operation from 1938 to 1953, about a stone's throw away from Columbia's), while 23613 {Images #740244 & 740245} came from Richmond, IN; notice how the left side's typesetting of the second disc currently shown, plus the fonts used for the songwriting and film credits, didn't match the first and third discs'.



fixbutte 7th May 2015		I've also added the album title as on the cover and insert back and front (although I guess that it is not on the album spine like that, because of a space problem).



fixbutte 7th May 2015		Hi xiphophilos, I've fixed the track numbers on this album as requested. Actually, you can do that yourself before you submit the album (I forgot to mention that last time). As suggested by you, the date of release was actually 1946, not 1948 as originally submitted. Not only the copyright on the insert is 1946 but the album was first mentioned in the Billboard magazine in 1946 and entered the album charts there in Jan 1947 (see adjusted sources), not in Nov 1948 (an apparent re-entry).



xiphophilos 7th May 2015		This is another one of those albums I didn't actually buy myself but got from someone else, and that person didn't notice that it contained Decca 23470 twice. If anyone happens to have the actual Sides 3 & 4 (Decca 23612), please add pictures of those labels.

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Linked Releases

USA - Decca - 1946

India - Columbia - 1946

Finland - Decca - 1947

UK - Brunswick - 1947

Canada - Decca