VICTOR WHITE-LABEL TEST "Birdie" Roger Wolfe Kahn O. BVE-34693-2 E 1926
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Description
Here is a 1926 shellac VICTOR WHITE-LABEL TEST PRESSING of "BIRDIE" by ROGER WOLFE KAHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA. It's a peppy and perfectly danceable tune, admirably performed and Orthophonically recorded. There is no catalogue number in the dead-wax, indicating that this truly IS a TEST pressing, a pre-release, made before the number was assigned.
PHOTO: The barely visible matrix information, etched into the label area by the conscientious engineer at the original session of March 10, 1926, was retrieved under ultra-violet light, with help from the James West Space Telescope.
This original 1926 White Label Victor test BVE-34693-2 is in clean E condition. Same take as the issued record (Victor 19996).
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