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One good thing about many of those 1940s reissues is that many of them are pressed from the original metal parts so if you find one of these in good condition it's an economical way to obtain and hear the material as good as you'll get this side of a vinyl test pressing. The groove patterns will resemble the 1920s/early 1930s records, often without lead-in grooves (sometimes they were mechanically added for these reissues).

Be aware that there are also reissues which are dubbings; these may or may not retain the original matrix numbers of the original recordings but will have features in the grooves' appearance that will look like contemporary 1940s releases of new material.

That's interesting. I was told by a collector that RCA Victor doctored its Hot Jazz series to be more compatible with 1940s technology, but I think Victor may have issued its albums later than Brunswick and Columbia as seen in this video, which says this Jelly Roll Morton album came out in 1948. Is that what you were referring to?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jel ... FORM=VIRE3

Here's Minnie The Moocher on eBay this week:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cab-Calloway-Mi ... 2c73568724

Phono48 wrote:

dd2u wrote:Did you see the price that Vera Lynn's "White Cliffs of Dover" fetched on eBay recently?

I did,and immediately put my near-mint copy up for auction. I can't remember the exact amount, but the starting price was way, way below what the first one fetched. I put a fairly low reserve on it, again much lower, but the few bids mine attracted came nowhere near the price the first one fetched. I wonder why????

Barry

It's hard to judge the market for a particular title by one sale. You can have a bidder who just has to have something -- to complete a set, because of sentiment attached to the song, etc. -- that can drive up the price well above market.

Clay

I see your point, and agree entirely, but surely one of the underbidders on the first one would have been interested?

marcapra wrote:That's interesting. I was told by a collector that RCA Victor doctored its Hot Jazz series to be more compatible with 1940s technology, but I think Victor may have issued its albums later than Brunswick and Columbia as seen in this video, which says this Jelly Roll Morton album came out in 1948. Is that what you were referring to?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=jel ... FORM=VIRE3

Yes; that 78 of 'Sidewalk blues' in the video is a dubbing done in the 1940s.