Jeff Wheeler has a book in progress on this isssue-er-reissue situation.

Steve Smolian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Bix Beiderbecke "reissue" 78's


> Biltmore, not Biltmor..Biltmor was a Canadian label around 1950. Funny 
> about dropping the final E on common names..there was a label up here 
> called Yorkshir as well. We drop Es and add Us.
>
> Biltmore, Temple, Sentry (and a few others) all put out dubs of rare jazz 
> 78s. Some of them weren't too atrocious. Some were..but how else were you 
> going to say you owned a copy of Zulu's Ball?
>
> dl
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Sweet Sue was a dub, and there are two versions..the complete original 
>> (4:25 or so) and one with the "florid introduction" removed. We had the 
>> set with the complete version but the liner notes were unchanged, so for 
>> years I wondered how much longer the original could have been! I didn't 
>> find the shorter version till just a few years ago.
>>
>> And the second album is definitely all dubs, but all the Columbia reissue 
>> albums were dubs by this time, like Crosby Classics Volume II. In fact 
>> Columbia was dubbing older European classical masters as well c. 1950.
>>
>> Did Boris Rose have anything to do with Biltmor? I've seen some lacquers 
>> where the labels were the blank sides of old Biltmor labels.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> David Weiner wrote:
>>> Some of the Columbia reissues - especially the first album,  are mostly
>>> master pressings. I think the later album is all dubs.
>>>
>>> The Biltmores are definitely all bootleg dubs.
>>>
>>> Dave W.
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> I am interested in details about two Bix Beiderbecke reissue 78's.
>>>
>>> First of all, the albums put out by Columbia in the late 40's, reissues 
>>> of
>>> Okeh records -- were those made from old metal parts or are they dubs of 
>>> old records?
>>>
>>> Second, what's the story on the 78's put out on the Biltmore label? 
>>> These
>>> seem to be either licensed reissues or bootlegs of old Gennett and 
>>> Victor records, of the Wolverines
>>> and the Whiteman band.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any answers!
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>