Victor matrix BVE-42925. It's hard to laugh or smile / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten
- Description: Jazz/dance band
- Instrumentation: 3 saxophones, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, banjo, piano, and traps
- Category: Instrumental
- Master Size: 10-in.
- Title Note: Disc label names Bennie Moten as composer; Victor ledgers (9/6/1928) credit Moten and Leroy Berry.
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| Source(s): Frog CD notes (personnel); Rigler-Deutsch Index; Victor blue history card; trade catalog; Victor ledgers. |
| Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from notes to a reissue compilation CD. Personnel listings here are not intended to imply that every instrument listed is played on every master recorded at the session. |
| Victor ledgers: "With Bennie Moten directing and playing piano (L. Joy, ass't.)." |
| Take Date and Place | Take | Status | Label Name/Number | Format | Note Hide Additional Titles |
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| 9/6/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 1 | Destroy | |||
| 9/6/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 2 | Destroy | |||
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 3 | Hold | |||
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 4 | Master | Victor V-38037 | 10-in. | |
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 4 | Master | Bluebird B-6431 | 10-in. | |
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | [4]1R | Master | Bluebird B-8228 | 10-in. | From dub made 8/1/1939 |
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 4 | Master | RCA (France) PM 42410 | LP | |
| 9/7/1928 Camden, New Jersey | 4 | Master | Frog DGF 30 | Compact disc |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BVE-42925. It's hard to laugh or smile / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten," accessed April 19, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800017108/BVE-42925-Its_hard_to_laugh_or_smile.
Victor matrix BVE-42925. It's hard to laugh or smile / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 19, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800017108/BVE-42925-Its_hard_to_laugh_or_smile.
"Victor matrix BVE-42925. It's hard to laugh or smile / Kansas City Orchestra ; Bennie Moten." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 19 April 2024.
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