78 RPM - Sons Of The Pioneers - Cowboy Classics - RCA Victor

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Sons Of The Pioneers
Label:	RCA Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	P-168
Date:	14 Apr 1947
Format:	Album
Title:	Cowboy Classics
Genre:	Vocal, Country
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own
Price Guide:	$30
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PRICE GUIDE

$30

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Sons Of The Pioneers	Cool Water	Bob Nolan	Rate
B	Sons Of The Pioneers	Chant Of The Wanderer	Bob Nolan	Rate
C	Sons Of The Pioneers	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Bob Nolan	Rate
D	Sons Of The Pioneers	The Everlasting Hills Of Oklahoma	Tim Spencer	Rate
E	Sons Of The Pioneers	Cowboy Camp Meetin'	Tim Spencer	Rate
F	Sons Of The Pioneers	Blue Prairie	Tim Spencer, Bob Nolan	Rate
G	Sons Of The Pioneers	The Timber Trail	Tim Spencer	Rate
H	Sons Of The Pioneers	Trees	Joyce Kilmer, Oscar Rasbach	Rate

Notes

Four 78-rpm record album P-168 "Cowboy Classics," consisting of RCA Victor 20-2076, 20-2077, 20-2078, 20-2079.
Album released with either a blue or a red spine.

A ("Cool Water"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 8, 1945. Originally released on RCA Victor 20-1724.
B ("Chant Of The Wanderer"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 15, 1946. From the Columbia picture "Texas Stampede."
C ("Tumbling Tumbleweeds"): recorded Hollywood, CA, March 15, 1946. Originally released on RCA Victor 20-1904.
D ("The Everlasting Hills Of Oklahoma"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 15, 1946. From the Republic picture "Home In Oklahoma."
E ("Cowboy Camp Meetin'"): recorded Hollywood, CA, March 15, 1946. Originally released on RCA Victor 20-1904.
F ("Blue Prairie"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 15, 1946.
G ("The Timber Trail"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 8, 1945. Originally released on RCA Victor 20-1764.
H ("Trees"): recorded Hollywood, CA, August 21, 1946.

Billboard, Apr. 12, 1947, page 31: Advance Record Releases (Week ending April 4)

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Comments and Reviews


Bob1951 24th Mar 2019		Camden pressing label images added for sides A, B, C, D, E, and F.



xiphophilos ● 21st Jun 2018		The entire album is available on mp3s at https://archive.org/details/78_cowboy-classics_the-sons-of-the-pioneers-bob-nolan_gbia0003373.



xiphophilos ● 18th Jul 2017		Most 78s have only a single song on each side. The discussion below is about the question whether the records that originally came with this album would all have had the album catalog number P-168 on the label, or whether the album came straight from the factory with a mix of labels that showed partially the album number, partially only the catalog numbers of the individual records. Based on the fact that one of the records (20-2077) has one label side with, another without the album catalog number, it seems that all the records here shown could have been part of the original assembly.



Trelbee 18th Jul 2017		I just food this hiding under some books at a salvation army. It's a collection of 78s that has a single song on each side.



slholzer 17th Apr 2017		The simultaneous existence of "album" and "single" versions of the same disc makes anything at least possible. If demand was high enough and "album" labels were for some reason not immediately available, RCA could have thrown together hybrid albums using "single" versions to fill the empty pockets and even putting "single" labels on the back of "album" sides to keep the product flowing. The titles and numbers and the masters used were the same, so nobody's expectations would be short-changed. It would be sloppy, to say the least, by RCA's usual standards and undoubtedly would not have pleased the quality control guys, but I doubt that many of the record-buying public would have even noticed it. The "hybrid" version of 20-2077 is the strongest argument in favor of that scenario. It at least makes it plausible. Personally, I still think replacement records are the most likely explanation for the two wholly "single" versions. Unfortunately, we will probably never know the answer unless we find someone who has owned this exact set of records since they bought it new without having replaced any of the discs. On the plus side, it is an interesting, but hardly critical discographical issue. We can have some fun with it and nobody needs to be greatly disappointed if it's never resolved.



xiphophilos ● 15th Apr 2017		Then I wonder if all these records couldn't be the ones that originally came with this album, printed just as the label design was changing.



78-Ron 15th Apr 2017		The scans from 20-2077 are from the same record!



slholzer 15th Apr 2017		It appears we have a mixed batch of records here, suggesting that two of these discs are not original to the set. Note that the illustrated copies of 20-2076 and 20-2078 have no reference to album P-168 on their labels, while the other two do. I know from photos in my own database that a version of 20-2076 was issued with the reference to P-168, and would assume that to be the case with 20-2078 as well. The two discs without the album reference were probably purchased as singles to replace original album-version discs that broke or wore out. It seems likely that "single" versions were also issued for 20-2077 and 20-2079. The two sides of 20-2077 illustrated here pose an interesting question. Both sides of 20-2079 have the same "album" format. Why is that not true of 20-2077? Are these labels from different exemplars, or did this copy actually have an "album" label on one side and a "single" label on the other? If the latter, was that done deliberately or by accident?