
Jack Shilkret's Orchestra, recorded ?/?/25, (from "My Girl") matrix BVE-31752-?, as played on 1926 Orthophonic Victrola FOUR-THREE. This is the "AA" side, VE electrical recording, catalog number engraved in runout area: 19571-AA. Unknown if this is an electrical dub from original acoustical pressing or if this is a new recording. "VE" in oval stamped into runout at top of this "AA" side. This is a Canadian pressing. The American Victor release featured only the acoustic sides of this number, coupled with Waring's Pennsylvanians "Will You Remember Me?" Victor page 4713 shows 4 takes of matrix 31573 (with no comment about being electric; for a couple of the early electrics, the handwritten comments say they are electric, but the file does not show BVE in the typed version). 31573 is by Jack Shilkret's Orchestra conducted by Nat on take -1 and by Leroy Shield on takes -2 through -4. Later in the page, four takes of matrix 31752 show as follows: These are by the International Novelty Orch, conducted by Jack, with Nat on celeste, with the title One Stolen Kiss; take -2 issued as 19568A. In his American Dance Band Discography, Rust lists both recordings just as I found them in the Victor pages. Perhaps an electric recording of "You and I," which should be assigned matrix BVE-31753 (not 31752), was recorded later, and hence is NOT one of the earliest Victor electrics.
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