Tell Me / Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)

Second pre-release pressing with label printing date code IX (= September 1919) on the A side and JX (= October 1919) on the B side. The A side shows six patent dates in two lines of unequal length (the lower one longer) (sub-variety iii), whereas the B side shows five patents in two lines of equal length (sub-variety iv). This release also features 78552, take 2 instead of take 6 on the A side. Dance Music A & B: Fox-trot A side (mx. 78552, take 2) recorded New York, NY, July 11, 1919. B side (mx. 78589, take 2) recorded New York, NY, July 22, 1919. The Columbia Republican [Hudson, NY], October 14, 1919, page 7: Dealer ad: Columbia Records November 1919. The Saturday Evening Post, October 25, 1919, page 131: Columbia ad: "New November Numbers of Columbia Records." The DeKalb Daily Chronicle, October 31, 1919, page 4: Columbia dealer ad "Columbia Records for November" (i.e., actually released in late October).