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The two 12 inch OKeh selections by Eva Taylor and Clarence Williams group were VERY nice!And,what made them so is they didn't rush through them.edisonplayer

Whiteman recorded quite a few 12" selections for VTM / RCA in the 20s and early 30s. (Before and after the time at Columbia) But as mentioned they are usually more of the concert variety both in the players and arrangement. Brunswick also had a popular concert series in 12" where artists such as Red Nichols recorded along with the more main stream-types of Victor Young and Jack Hylton.

Here are a few of the late 1920s Brunswick examples on Youtube....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFLqOq03Cag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DyZTwmEzaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayloISHThLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxFOGds4nRs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5raZUXfNGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM4v4vRfFXE

In the mid to late 30s you start seeing more Jazz and then Swing on 12" sides. Decca's "Five Feet of Swing" (5 12" discs) and RCA's "Symposium of Swing" albums are good examples. Goodman's previously released single of "Sing Sing Sing" on both sides of a 12" cannot actually contain the full piece performed the next year at the Carnegie Hall concert.

Here is the 1937 Chick Webb - Ella Fitzgerald 12" recording that became a part of the Decca "Five Feet of Swing" album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxkzJRIXPX8

That Symposium of Swing album is relatively common, too. Has Bunny Berigan's I Can't Get Started in it, which is a great record.

Springmotor70 wrote:Whiteman recorded quite a few 12" selections for VTM / RCA in the 20s and early 30s.

I wonder if the original acoustic version "Rhapsody in Blue" was the first?

Whiteman was recording some 12 " sides for Victor from the beginning in 1920. Avalon is one that I immediately think of (I like the record.)

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded some 12" sides for English Columbia in 1919.
736 - Ostrich Walk/Sensation Rag
748 - Tiger Rag/Look At 'Em Doing It

"The Original Dixieland Jazz Band recorded some 12" sides for English Columbia in 1919."

I have always wondered about these, since on CD reissue they don't seem to play any longer than their 10 inch Victor counterparts.

Best wishes, Mark

Wolfe wrote:Whiteman was recording some 12 " sides for Victor from the beginning in 1920. Avalon is one that I immediately think of (I like the record.)

Here's a very early "Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orchestra" 12 inch side - It's a One-Step from that transitional era when Ragtime was barely becoming Jazz. : [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1m9px4BzV0[/youtube]