Rhapsody In Blue

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Album Info

Release Date: 1945-07

Label: Columbia Masterworks

Original 1945 release on blue CBS label with three lines of patent text under COLUMBIA, listing the patents 1625705 and 1702564, cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 9.

The catalog number appears as MX-251 on the front cover, as MX 251 on the labels and album spine, and as X-MX-251 on the inside cover.

A-C: with The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy
D1 & 2: Piano Solo

Auto-coupled release:
Disc 1 contains Sides A & D
Disc 2 contains Sides B & C

A-C recorded May 20, 1945.
D recorded November 17, 1942.

Gramophone Record Supplement (Gramophone Shop, Inc.), July 1945, page 5.