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78 RPM Record

Artist: Abbott And Costello Label:   Enterprise [California] Country: USA Catalogue: 501 Date: Apr 1947 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  4 Own, 2 Want Price Guide: Valuation Page » 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	Abbott And Costello	Who's On First? (Part A - Special)		10.0  Rate
B	Abbott And Costello	Who's On First? (Part B)		10.0  Rate

Notes

Special release for the benefit of the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation.

On the original April 1947 release, as reviewed in Billboard, May 10, 1947, part A begins with a few bars of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game".
A different version features "Part A - Special", which begins with a long, spoken introduction by Lou Costello.

Billboard, April 19, 1947, p. 32: Advance Record Releases (Week ending April 11).
Billboard, May 10, 1947, p. 131: Record Reviews.



Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 21st Sep 2017		The spoken intro is probably missing because the video presents a different (earlier? later?) version of this record. The A side label contains "Part A", not "Part A - Special", like yours.
RichardSibello SUBS 21st Sep 2017		The video below cuts out the long spoken introduction by Lou Costello.
xiphophilos 21st Sep 2017		A & B sides (first version) Notes copied from a 2011 Ebay listing by seller casten-sf, which also provides a transcript of the entire sketch: In February 1938, Abbott and Costello joined the cast of the The Kate Smith Hour radio program, and the sketch was first performed for a national radio audience that March.[1]The routine may have been further polished before this broadcast by burlesque producer John Grant, who became the team's writer, and Will Glickman, a staff writer on the radio show.[2] Glickman may have added the nicknames of then-contemporary baseball players like Dizzy and Daffy Dean to set up the routine's premise. This version, with extensive wordplay based on the fact that most of a fictional baseball team's players had "strange nicknames" that seemed to be questions, became known as "Who's on First?" By 1944, Abbott and Costello had the routine copyrighted.

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