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Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra-Song of India 78   


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  17th Jul 2016, 4:44 AM#1  REPORT  
13murder13

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I could use any information on this 78. It's on the Columbia label. It's one sided. The info on the label is typed like from a type writer. It says it's for Paramount Pictures Las Vegas Nights. Hopefully the link I added works and is of some use. Thanks for any help. I also put a picture of the label as my profile picture if the links don't work.

https://www.facebook.com/303249833033474/photos/a.303266323031825.79021.303249833033474/1347113398647107/?type=3&theater

[img]https://www.facebook.com/303249833033474/photos/a.303266323031825.79021.303249833033474/1347113398647107/?type=3&theater[/img]

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  17th Jul 2016, 12:44 PM#2  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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 Las Vegas Nights was released in 1941, though the transcription may have been a little earlier
Amusing to see "lateral cut" on the label, it seems an anachronism of several decades

How do you get images to appear here? Only Zabadak knows this stuff ;-)

Your image

Edited by Juke Jules on 17th Jul 2016, 12:52 PM

  19th Jul 2016, 11:56 AM#3  REPORT  
W.B.lbl

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It's also amazing because wasn't Tommy still signed to Victor at that point? But "lateral cut" has been how records were cut for years. Thomas Edison had exclusive dibs on vertical cutting. I can only presume Tommy and his "ork" (per Billboard verbiage of the time) cut in a Hollywood studio that was piped in to either Columbia's Romaine Street pressing plant or the KNX studios.


  19th Jul 2016, 12:49 PM#4  REPORT  
zabadak

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Juke Jules wrote:
How do you get images to appear here? Only Zabadak knows this stuff ;-)
:cool:


  28th Jul 2016, 4:50 PM#5  REPORT  
annaloog

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W.B.lbl wrote:
It's also amazing because wasn't Tommy still signed to Victor at that point? But "lateral cut" has been how records were cut for years. Thomas Edison had exclusive dibs on vertical cutting. I can only presume Tommy and his "ork" (per Billboard verbiage of the time) cut in a Hollywood studio that was piped in to either Columbia's Romaine Street pressing plant or the KNX studios.
I wouldn't think that these Columbia 'Electrical Transcription' 78s were available for retail sale (I have a copy of one, by Dodd Singers). Dorsey's Victor contract was coming up for negotiation in 1942, and (acc. to various Billboard accounts) he was in talks with both Columbia and Loew's, which was considering starting its own (M-G-M) label at the time.

FWIW, I have a few vertically-cut US Pathé 78s which date from the late 1910s-early '20s. They sound terrible played back with a stereo cartridge.


  28th Jul 2016, 9:42 PM#6  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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I guess you'd need to wire the two sides of a stereo cartridge in series for a vertical cut, instead of in parallel for lateral


  28th Jul 2016, 10:36 PM#7  REPORT  
W.B.lbl

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annaloog wrote:
Tommy Dorsey's Victor contract was coming up for negotiation in 1942, and (acc. to various Billboard accounts) he was in talks with both Columbia and Loew's, which was considering starting its own (M-G-M) label at the time.
Yet when Loew's actually started MGM Records, wasn't it Jimmy Dorsey who was one of its first artists?


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