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78 RPM Record

Artist: Glenn Miller Label:   Bluebird Country: USA Catalogue: B-10214 Date: 26 Apr 1939 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  33 Own, 7 Want Price Guide: $40 » 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	Glenn Miller	Sunrise Serenade	Frankie Carle	9.0  Rate
B	Glenn Miller	Moonlight Serenade	Glenn Miller	9.5  Rate

Notes

Glenn Miller And His Orchestra

Personnel:
Bob Price, Leigh Knowles, Dale “Mickey” McMickle (trumpets); Glenn Miller, Paul Tanner, Al Mastren (trombone); Hal McIntyre, Wilbur Schwartz (clarinet, alto sax); Stan Aronson (tenor sax, clarinet); Tex Beneke, Al Klink (tenor sax); Chummy MacGregor (piano); Allen Reuss (guitar); Rollie Bundock (bass); Frankie Carlson (drums on "Moonlight Serenade"); Moe Purtill (drums on "Sunrise Serenade"); Bill Finegan (arranger).

A side (mx. BS-035731-1) recorded New York, NY, April 10, 1939.
B side (mx. BS-035701-1) recorded New York, NY, April 4, 1939.
(DAHR)

Images

Number: 443431  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: J.Paul Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (Camden pressing)	Number: 443432  Uploaded By: J.Paul Description: Bluebird B-10214 B side label (Camden pressing)	Number: 796487  Uploaded By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (Indianapolis pressing, plant opened August 1939)	Number: 796488  Uploaded By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 B side label (Indianapolis pressing)
Number: 1679076  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (late 1939 Camden repress, Victor needle notice, black label color)	Number: 1679077  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Bluebird B-10214 B side label (late 1939 Camden repress, Victor needle notice, black label color)	Number: 3648375  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (ca. 1941 Camden repress, Victor needle notice, royal blue label color)	Number: 3648376  Uploaded By: xiphophilos Description: Bluebird B-10214 B side label (ca. 1941 Camden repress, Victor needle notice, royal blue label color)
Number: 796474  Uploaded By: Twitster Edited By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (Hollywood pressing, ca. 1942)	Number: 796475  Uploaded By: Twitster Edited By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 B side label (Hollywood pressing, ca. 1942)	Number: 796481  Uploaded By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (slightly later Hollywood pressing, Victor needle notice, ca. 1943?)	Number: 796482  Uploaded By: Twitster Description: Bluebird B-10214 A side label (slightly later Hollywood pressing, Victor needle notice, ca. 1943?)

Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 16th Jul 2020		To partially answer my own question, it seems Bluebird's needle promotion first turns up on late October 1939 releases, cf. https://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/label/bluebird/16.
xiphophilos 16th Jul 2020		The needle promotion "For best results use Victor needles" seems to appear or disappear almost randomly on these Bluebird discs. Can anyone supply an approximate date when they were introduced or eliminated?
xiphophilos 17th May 2020		A side (Fall 1941-1943 Hollywood repress with a gap where patent nr. 1637544 used to be):
xiphophilos 17th May 2020		B side:
GimmeVinyl 24th Jan 2020		Thanks to the information below, and the info Xiphophilos provided on a Metronome All Stars Victor pressing, I should now be able to give an approximate date on all my Victor/Bluebird/RCA Victor 78 pressings, as well as identify the pressing plant. I must admit that I didn't know too much on the history of RCA's Indianapolis plant before hand. Being from the Detroit area, it will be interesting to see which pressing plants my copies originated from! My guess would be Indianapolis for discs pressed in 1939 and later.. but, you never can tell!
fixbutte 18th Oct 2018		It made sense somehow to treat "Sunrise Serenade", an established melody that Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra had recorded before, as the A-side. This sequence made even more sense considering the song titles. Anyway you are right that A and B marks didn't have the same meaning as they had from the 1950s on. The main clientele of the record industry were juke box operators who were strongly interested in as many coins as possible for each side of every record, as well as private customers wanted as much good music as possible for their money. Radio stations, on the other hand, did not play recorded music until the 1950s. They had their own orchestras.
Strawberry_Lynn 18th Oct 2018		Is Moonlight Serenade REALLY the flipside? When records of this vintage are marked A & B, I doubt that they actually mean that 'Side A' is in fact the 'radio play' side
xiphophilos 23rd Nov 2016		For this record we have all the three variants of the circular or ring label design that appears on Bluebird and Victor in mid-1937. 1. two equally long concentric label rings starting left and right of RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc., Camden, N. J., U. S. A. = probably pressed in the oldest plant, Camden, N.J. 2. two concentric label rings of unequal length (the outer one is shorter than the inner one): appears around 1939, thus possibly pressed in the Indianapolis, IN pressing plant that opened in August 1939. 3. two equally long concentric label rings that are broken at 10 o' clock and 2 o'clock: used first ca. 1940-41 and possibly a Hollywood, CA pressing. (Source: Post by user W.B.lbl on Steve Hofman's Music Forum). The Hollywood labels are also all missing patent nr. 1637544, which dates them to between late 1941 - fall 1943 (M. W. Sherman, Collector's Guide to Victor Records, 2nd ed., page 105).
Twitster 13th Jul 2015		796474/475 & 796481/482: Variations of Hollywood pressings?

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