Rhapsody in Blue-Paul Whiteman:1927 part 1

[Edisonfan]

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I am fully aware that this is NOT the complete score, only part 1 of Rhapsody in Blue on Decca Personalty Series. I was only able to score this one disc.

[CharliePhono]

Thanks for the upload! I have the Victor Scroll version of RIB, but it is so badly worn as to practically not be playable.

I have been searching for Victor 55225, on the blue label from 1924, but so far no luck.

Continued success with your channel!

Charlie

[52089]

Is this a US or overseas pressing? I don't think I've ever seen Gershwin or Whiteman on US Decca. Can you please post a picture of the label?

[gramophone-georg]

Is this a US or overseas pressing? I don't think I've ever seen Gershwin or Whiteman on US Decca. Can you please post a picture of the label?

If memory serves, Whiteman re- recorded the Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, and possibly other Gershwin pieces Whiteman premiered after Gershwin's death in 1938-9 on Decca, where Whiteman moved after leaving Victor in early 1937.

[Edisonfan]

Thanks for the upload! I have the Victor Scroll version of RIB, but it is so badly worn as to practically not be playable.

I have been searching for Victor 55225, on the blue label from 1924, but so far no luck.

Continued success with your channel!

Charlie

Thank you Charlie!

[52089]

Is this a US or overseas pressing? I don't think I've ever seen Gershwin or Whiteman on US Decca. Can you please post a picture of the label?

If memory serves, Whiteman re- recorded the Rhapsody in Blue, Second Rhapsody, Concerto in F, An American in Paris, and possibly other Gershwin pieces Whiteman premiered after Gershwin's death in 1938-9 on Decca, where Whiteman moved after leaving Victor in early 1937.

Thanks. I assumed it wasn't Gershwin. Appreciate the additional info too.

[gramophone-georg]

I just discovered that I have a version of this by Adrian Schubert on red Domino. It's quite good! Interesting that neither the catalogue or matrix numbers appear in Rust. June 1927 release according to Discogs.

[Inigo]

The 78rpm online discographical project, https://www.78discography.com/Dom0100.htm
drawing from the discographies compiled by Steven C Barr, Steve Abrams, Tyrone Settlemier and many other sources, has this info on that record cited,
Domino 0181 SCHUBERT'S SOCIETY ORCHESTRA - RHAPSODY IN BLUE parts 1 and 2, matrix 7185 and 7186-1, also published as Regal 8307, March 1927

DAHR has included 864 Plaza matrices, and doesn't have 7185/6, but has this slightly earlier one, which well could have been recorded at the same session: NY RECORDING LABORATORIES, March 9th, 1927:
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ ... an_lullaby

Plaza matrix 7182. Russian lullaby / Adrian Schubert Orchestra ; Harold Lambert, recorded March 9th, 1927 New York

[gramophone-georg]

The 78rpm online discographical project, https://www.78discography.com/Dom0100.htm
drawing from the discographies compiled by Steven C Barr, Steve Abrams, Tyrone Settlemier and many other sources, has this info on that record cited,
Domino 0181 SCHUBERT'S SOCIETY ORCHESTRA - RHAPSODY IN BLUE parts 1 and 2, matrix 7185 and 7186-1, also published as Regal 8307, March 1927

DAHR has included 864 Plaza matrices, and doesn't have 7185/6, but has this slightly earlier one, which well could have been recorded at the same session: NY RECORDING LABORATORIES, March 9th, 1927:
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ ... an_lullaby

Plaza matrix 7182. Russian lullaby / Adrian Schubert Orchestra ; Harold Lambert, recorded March 9th, 1927 New York

Interesting. My copy is matrices 7185-1 and 7186-4. I was hoping to find it in Rust to get some idea of personnel, but no dice there.

[Inigo]

Could be in Dance Bands?