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DELETED RECORDS by Peter Watt
Over the years some of the best jazz performances ever recorded have been deleted from their lists by the gramophone companies. Later some of them have been reissued with other often less exciting but more popular titles on EP's or in LP albums; the rest can only now be found by the earnest collector in shops specialising in second-hand records (though not necessarily in jazz), street barrows, junk shops, trays outside bookshops and even in that cupboard under the stairs.
Here is a short list of "desirable deletions" well worth looking out for. They are all ten-inch 78 r.p.m. records:
HENRY ALLEN AND HIS ORCHESTRA
House in Harlem for Sale / Rug-Cutter Swing (Vocalion)
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS ORCHESTRA
If I Could Be with You Tonight/Shine (Parlophone) Dear Old Southland (Trumpet Solo) / My Sweet
(Parlophone) Black and Blue/Sweet Savannah Sue (Parlophone) A Monday Date (with Earl Hines) / Wrap Your
Troubles in Dreams (Parlophone)
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