Rampart Street Paraders strange LP (test pressing?)

[solar_myth]

I have an LP I'm wondering if anyone can help me identify. It's a test pressing or acetate of some kind, very stiff inflexible vinyl, crudely scissor-cut and glued-on labels with tracklistings typed in and name at the top "BRUNO ANDRACCHIO". The matrix #s are XLP47729 and XLP47730 which make it a Columbia mono pressing. By comparing tracklistings I've determine that this is actually the Rampart Street Paraders, five of the songs are identical takes to tracks on "Rampart And Vine", CL 648. (I've played both albums side-by-side to confirm this. BTW the test pressing weighs a full ounce less than the CL 648 LP.)

Three of the tracks on this test pressing differ from what's on "Rampart And Vine": "Dixieland Shuffle", "After You've Gone", and "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" are all on this pressing but not on the "Rampart And Vine" LP. I gather they're on "Dixieland, My Dixieland" but I don't have a copy to compare.

My copy of "Rampart And Vine" has the matrix #s XLP34927 and XLP34928, a good 12000 digits lower than the test pressing.

Does anyone know what I have, why the matrix #s are so far apart, what the matrix #s are on "Dixieland, My Dixieland", who Bruno Andracchio was?

Many thanks.

[jazztrain]

In the wax on my copy of "Dixieland, My Dixieland" are: XLP37061-1B on Side 1 and XLP37062-1B on Side 2.

The tunes on that album are as follows:

I'm Gonna Sit RIght Down and Write Myself A Letter

(Love's Got Me In A) Lazy Mood

Dixieland Shuffle

After You've Gone

Oh, Baby!

When It's Sleepy Time Down South

My Monday Date

Chinatown, My Chinatown

[solar_myth]

Thanks for the info on "Dixieland, My Dixieland"... that confirms what I'd thought, that the other three songs on this test pressing are from "Dixieland, My Dixieland" and that the matrix #s are still far apart. If the matrix #s are believed to go in order, that would put this record a good 4-5 years after both LPs it shares material from. Say 1958 or 59 while the LPs were 1954 and 1955. Doesn't make much sense, unless maybe it's a test pressing for a never-materialized "Best Of" LP collecting tunes from each of their LPs?

Or could XLP47729 be a contemporary 1954 code, and this is actually the original intended version of "Rampart And Vine" before they switched around a few tracks for the actual release? Because from this post:

it's clear all the tracks from both LPs are from the same 1954 sessions.

[jazztrain]

I think the XLP prefix is what Columbia used for 12 inch mono releases. I would expect they would be sequential, or roughly so, by issue but some additional work would be needed to confirm this.

I had the same thought that you might have a test pressing for some anthology, perhaps not issued, by the Rampart Street Paraders.

Bruno Andracchio might have been the owner of the disc. If you search on that name, you will find some hits.

Thanks for the info on "Dixieland, My Dixieland"... that confirms what I'd thought, that the other three songs on this test pressing are from "Dixieland, My Dixieland" and that the matrix #s are still far apart. If the matrix #s are believed to go in order, that would put this record a good 4-5 years after both LPs it shares material from. Say 1958 or 59 while the LPs were 1954 and 1955. Doesn't make much sense, unless maybe it's a test pressing for a never-materialized "Best Of" LP collecting tunes from each of their LPs?

Or could XLP47729 be a contemporary 1954 code, and this is actually the original intended version of "Rampart And Vine" before they switched around a few tracks for the actual release? Because from this post:

it's clear all the tracks from both LPs are from the same 1954 sessions.