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| Track | Artist | Title | Composer | Rating |
| A | Bessie Smith | St. Louis Blues | W. C. Handy | Rate |
| B | Bessie Smith | Reckless Blues | Longshaw, Gee | Rate |
| C | Bessie Smith | Careless Love Blues | W. C. Handy | Rate |
| D | Bessie Smith | Weeping Willow Blues | Paul Carter | Rate |
| E | Bessie Smith | Alexander's Ragtime Band | Berlin | Rate |
| F | Bessie Smith | There'll Be A Hot Time In The Old Town Tonight | Metz | Rate |
| G | Bessie Smith | Money Blues | Kapp, Coleman, Eller | Rate |
| H | Bessie Smith | Muddy Water (A Mississippi Moan) | DeRose, Richman, Trent | Rate |
| I | Bessie Smith | Yellow Dog Blues | W. C. Handy | Rate |
| J | Bessie Smith | Trombone Cholly | Brooks | Rate |
| K | Bessie Smith | Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out | Cox | Rate |
| L | Bessie Smith | Back-Water Blues | Smith | Rate |
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| fixbutte 25th Jan 2023 | Three more original Columbia Notes label images added and moved up (sides E, F & G, {Images #3196912, 3196917 & 3196955}), so we now have all 12 sides with that design, six of them with the later TRADE MARK REGISTERED imprint flanking the Notes though. After these 12 labels and the album spine image three variant Columbia Notes labels are shown with the additional FULL RANGE RECORDING imprint {Images #1189146, 1189148 & 1189157}, used from late 1937 up to CBS's acquisition of ARC according to W.B.lbl. After the reissue album cover with the Columbia notes and CBS microphone nine record labels with the appropriate logo are displayed. As already said, this blue label design was only used in 1939, as CBS/Columbia was going to launch their "red labels" series in August 1939. | |
| fixbutte 7th Nov 2020 | Missing B and L side label images uploaded. B side (Reckless Blues) has the original label design, like J side (Trombone Cholly) before. A side (St. Louis Blues), C side (Careless Love Blues) and D side (Weeping Willow Blues) labels with this original design also uploaded and moved up. L side (Back-Water Blues) label has a slightly later design, like H side (Muddy Water) before, with the words TRADE MARK REGISTERED flanking the Notes and COLUMBIA circle at top. I side (Yellow Dog Blues) and K side (Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out) labels with the same design also uploaded and moved up. | |
| W.B.lbl 18th Sep 2019 | The rim print on the blue label {Images #1189303, 2038630, 1218961, 1218967, 2038631, 1218966 & 1218968} was the very first of the "CBS era," and only lasted to about August 1939 as preparations were made to launch their "red label" 35200 popular series (no red labels I've ever come across had this particular variation); this short-lived variant was not accounted for in Mr. Daniels' guide. The label design of {Images #1189152 & 1189154} was only in use from 1936 to late 1937 which would make that one of the last pressings to use that variant, while that on {Images #1189146, 1189148 & 1189157} was put in place towards the tail end of 1937 (which would have dovetailed with the inaugural of the similarly laid out rim print of revamped Brunswick and Vocalion labels) and used up to CBS's acquisition of ARC. As a tangent, it's interesting that Earth, Wind & Fire's "vanity" label ARC (which in their case stood for American Recording Company) was launched close to the 40th anniversary of CBS's buying the American Record Corporation. | |
| molemilton 13th Sep 2019 | Added missing label scan for side E and label variant scan for side F. | |
| fixbutte 9th Apr 2019 | I was in doubt if the album was actually released in 1937 because of the album number C-8 which was apparently given only late in 1938, see the list of Columbia standard C-series album sets, showing e.g. Columbia album C-6 "Merchant Of Venice" by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre which was only recorded from July to September 1938 (see Orson Welles discography). Anyway Michael Biel, a retired professor, long-time record collector and historian, confirms and concretizes the release date as November 1937 in his long and interesting Powerpoint presentation, "Illustrated Record Album Covers Before Steinweiss”, given on the 2010 conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) in New Orleans, see here. Here is a direct link to Part 1, http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/audio2010/extra/biel1.ppt , where you can find the date on slide 116 - which is in accordance with Frank Daniels' labelography, saying "The last record on this label [1935 to 1937 design] was Bessie Smith Album, consisting of 3171D to 3176D", and the displayed J Side label here. | |
| fixbutte 9th Apr 2019 | US Columbia Records Singles © 2002, 2016 Frank Daniels (https://www.friktech.com/labels/ColumbiaLabelography.pdf) helps to date the different labels shown here: J Side (Trombone Cholly): Label 35 Notes and COLUMBIA in circle at top, underneath which are the words NOT LICENSED FOR RADIO BROADCAST At the bottom of the label is a simple, short copyright statement. 1935 to 1937 The last record on this label was Bessie Smith Album, consisting of 3171D to 3176D. At that point the D-series terminated. By October, 1937, ARC began using the Brunswick and Vocalion labels to the exclusion of Columbia. For the rest of 1937 and throughout 1938 there were no new Columbia “popular” records in the United States. The Depression had hit ARC hard, and by April, 1938, they had discontinued most of their labels. C, F, K Sides (Careless Love Blues, There'll Be A Hot Time ..., Nobody Knows You ...) Label 38 Notes and COLUMBIA in circle at top, flanked by the words FULL RANGE RECORDING. Lengthy copyright and patent statements surround the label. Used in 1938 only Classical and international recordings (new and repressing) and later pressings of popular singles exist in this style. Capitol [sic! = Columbia] began the numbering of their “C” series of albums during this time. In December, 1938, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) – the radio network that had spawned from Columbia Graphophone – purchased ARC for $700,000. H Side (Muddy Water) Label 38a Notes and COLUMBIA in circle at top, flanked by the words TRADE MARK REGISTERED. The rim print contains a 1937 copyright. Used from late 1938 through August, 1939 Classical recordings (new and repressing) and later pressings of popular singles exist in this style. Masterworks sets 341 through M-372 were first pressed in this style. Beginning in August, 1939, they revived the Columbia label – moving popular artists from ARC’s other labels onto Columbia. A Side (St. Louis Blues) and corresponding G to J labels not listed but apparently used in 1939, like Label 39 Red label with Columbia notes and CBS microphone at top. Under the logo is written “TRADE MARK.” Under COLUMBIA is written a lengthy patent and resale statement. The catalog number is at the bottom, followed by the side indicator (A or B). 1939 only Fewer than twenty singles were released in this format. | |
| fixbutte 8th Apr 2019 | Later cover with Columbia note-and-microphone logo uploaded. Whereas the original album with the Columbia Magic Notes label was first issued in November 1937, the modified cover was used from 1939 on, see previous comment. | |
| fixbutte 12th Nov 2016 | Actually I don't own the album, so I can only offer label images for one side of each record, and these not very well legible at the rim. Anyway, five of the records in the set have the "Magic Notes" logo, showing that the album was released before Columbia was purchased by CBS, with effect from January 1, 1939. Columbia had used blue record labels since 1932 but the change to all capital letters in its name was made only in 1936. As the first record (sides A and B) with the "microphone" label (and the album catalog number) shows, the album was still available after the purchase by CBS, and indeed there is no overlap with the next Bessie Smith album, Empress Of The Blues (C-31), released in early October 1940. | |
| xiphophilos 12th Nov 2016 | Thanks for providing the background history to this interesting album. I noticed the scans you provided show three different label designs. The C, F, and K sides say "Full Range Recording", the H and J sides have dropped that phrase, and the A side seems to be a later repress that actually lists the album nr., C-8. | |
| fixbutte 12th Nov 2016 | An album of six 10" 78 rpm records from 1937, this collection of some of the best Bessie Smith recordings belongs to the earliest non-classical album sets ever produced. Although it is usually referred to as Columbia Set C-8, there is no number visible on the original jacket and record labels. Anyway it contains the last six issues of the 3000-D series, before Columbia was discontinued and revived more than two years later, that is numbers 3171-D to 3176-D. The opulent album was apparently compiled and released after Bessie Smith's tragic death caused by a car accident on September 26, 1937 near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Although she had not recorded for four years, she was still very popular in the black community, and her funeral in Philadelphia was followed by about ten thousand admirers. A major recording comeback of Bessie Smith as a bluesy jazz singer, with Benny Goodman or Lionel Hampton, had been discussed in the last months before her death, and if she had survived, she would have undoubtedly been featured at John Hammond's From Spirituals to Swing concert in Carnegie Hall in December 1938, which was dedicated to her. | |
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