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JamesAHarrod

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Thanks for this info.

Wish they had done this when VSOP was still all about vinyl. This would have made a gem along with their other facsimile reissues of West Coast Jazz.

I have some of these tunes on reissues on various Tampa and AJ compilation LPs. Those Skylark Lighthouse All Stars recordings have always been a bit of a puzzle to me - e.g. was the honkin' sax "M.B.B." aka "More Big Boy" one tune under two names or two different recordings? Etc.  Discographies seem to be contradictory at times

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It has been a few years since I compared the multiple releases of the original master recording of "Big Boy." Scherman manipulated the master recording to produce "M.B.B." - I do not believe that it was ever marketed or released with the abbreviation spelled out as More Big Boy. My original examination can be found at:

http://jazzwestcoastresearch.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-first-lighthouse-all-stars.html

http://jazzwestcoastresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-first-lighthouse-all-stars.html

So the short answer is - same master recording - edited to fit multiple releases by Scherman. I have the Capitol Studios 78 test pressing that was released as Skylark SK 538.

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