What a difference a better pressing makes!

[beaumonde]

For some years I've had this performance on a rather poor-condition original OKeh pressing, which I bought from Rick Whiting at a Union show for all of $2. I would grade it as V- or even G (one of my worst condition records). I transferred it and derived some pleasure from it.

At the recent Bixfest in Racine, WI, I picked up a very nice Odeon pressing of the same matrix (not laminated, but sounding quite good).

Here are transfers of both pressings, for you to judge!

The Man From the South
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four (Joe Venuti, vn/Don Murray, bar/Rube Bloom, p, v/Eddie Lang, g)

Okeh 41076
http://www.box.net/shared/ztkbbevv5s

Odeon A 286 011
http://www.box.net/shared/k6opokiuz9

(And, by the way, I've learned that Rube Bloom pronounced his first name as "Ruby", believe it or not; I still have trouble remembering that).

[Henry]

In re: Rube = Ruby. Just saw "Guys and Dolls" on TCM last night. The character name Big Jule (so spelled in cast list) is pronounced "Big Julie." Cf. songwriter Jule Styne.