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Ding-A-Ring A Ring / Home Again Blues
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Ding-A-Ring A Ring / Home Again Blues --- 1921-04-00
This copy combines two different label designs. It features the newly introduced label with Exclusive Artist inside the Gold Band on the A side, but has a regular Gold Band Label with four patents in two lines of unequal length on the B side. The label printing date code BV on both sides dates the introduction of this Exclusive Artist label to February 1921. A side: Exclusive Artist [At Pressing] A side (mx. 79624, take 3) recorded New York, NY, January 4, 1921. B side (mx. 79644, take 1) recorded New York, NY, January 18, 1921. The Talking Machine World, April 15, 1921, page 183: Advance Record Bulletins for May, 1921 (actually released in late April 1921). San Francisco Call, April 20, 1921, page 2: Columbia ad "Complete May List Now On Sale."
Artist Bio
Videos
Al Jolson - "Ding-A-Ring A Ring" (1921)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMnwnE1qr9Q
Frank Crumit “Home Again Blues” Columbia A3375 (1921) Irving Berlin song ODJB covered this