78 RPM - Benny Goodman - Swing Music 1939 Series - No. 291 & 292 - His Master's Voice

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Benny Goodman
Label:	His Master's Voice
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	B.8879
Date:	Apr 1939
Format:	10"
Title:	Swing Music 1939 Series - No. 291 & 292
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	17 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Benny Goodman	Bach Goes To Town	Alec Templeton	Rate
B	Benny Goodman	Farewell Blues	Schoebel, Mares, Rappolo	Rate

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Swing Music 1939 Series - No. 291 & 292

A-Side Matrix - OA.030702
B-Side Matrix - OA.030308

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Redpunk SUBS 18th Dec 2023		Added DT label scans with text around whole of label.



xiphophilos 22nd Feb 2022		Thanks, Han, both for identifying the Swedish label and also for your comments on the background story of your and Norman's label guide. I've now created a new entry for the Swedish variant and linked it below.



han enderman 22nd Feb 2022		HMV B-8879 - The last 2 labels are Swedish, just as the other "Manufactured for..." label mentioned, which has a single NCB logo (and is probably the last Swedish pressing, with different upper rim legend and different font). Another variant is on discogs, where it is correctly called Swedish. It has "Fox-Trot" and part of the credit in lower case, and for "Bach" the copyright logo BIEM. We see this font (for number & title) also on Maxine Sullivan's Night and Day on HMV(S) X-6469 (also without NCB). And on X-6746 from Apr 1942. For clarification: When I had made the list of HMV(E) B-series label types for Norman Field (based on label images), Norman added dates, and an Appendix with exceptions. He guessed the unknown foreign type was rare and French, but actually it is normal and Swedish. Of course, there was no reason to import such issues into the UK and thus they are uncommon there.



Scratchy45 15th Feb 2022		For what it's worth, there is a picture online of a B 8879 label with NCB logo and "manufactured for" text. It seems to have similar label layout to the unidentified variant label (excluding rights/publisher symbols) but different typography for the label text.



xiphophilos 14th Feb 2022		The description in Han Enderman's label guide, to which JLC135 helpfully referred, calls this label style a "kind of unknown migrant" and speculates that it may have been produced at the EMI plant at Ivry-sur-Seine, France. If so, it was probably intended for distribution in France and maybe the Benelux countries; probably not for Scandinavia because of the missing N.C.B. logo. BD 484 is indeed a sister pressing! Good eye, JLC135!



andlj SUBS 14th Feb 2022		Thanks for the tips and comments. I share xiphophilos' opinion: I'm not convinced that this particular record (the one with the "plum" label) is made in Sweden, but it's more likely that it's made for Swedish or Scandinavian market ... maybe just in a French factory?



JLC135 14th Feb 2022		I'd say more comparable to this one, X. Probably should note that the label design is listed here, second from the bottom. They presume it to be from France.



xiphophilos 13th Feb 2022		I've rearranged the HMV labels chronologically. We are still missing the original April 1939 issue with the original colored Nipper trademark. It must be a bit rare since it was replaced as early as May 1939 with the monochrome trademark label. The last "plum" label could possibly be a Swedish issue, comparable to BD 5698 (if that's Swedish). That label also uses the original British prefix, but without a period after the prefix. This version doesn't say NCB, though, nor does it (or BD 5698) say "Made in Sweden". That latter phrase, however, was introduced on Swedish HMVs only in 1940. The type faces used also differ.



andlj SUBS 12th Feb 2022		Label variation images added: A "plum" label; same catalogue (B.8879), but not "Swing Music 1939 Series". "Record manufactured for The Grammophone Co., LTD." so probably an export issue.



soultwinz SUBS 14th Oct 2017		slight label variation images added

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