text: Not on 78, in the 50's
  If I'm not mistaken, that's actually a Berigan sideman record and Frank Trumbauer is the bandleader. It's a Victor 24K record from 1933, yes? Incidentally, Artie Shaw is the clarinet on that session, as he is on some of the early Berigan Vocalions from 1936.
  There's a recording of "Until Today" by Fred Rich's band featuring a Berigan trumpet and vocal I've been looking for for decades.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXd3qAU5r9M
  Yes, Berigan plays trumpet on that Blue Moon recording which is from November 1934. Trumbauer is the leader as well as the vocalist and on alto sax. Besides Artie Shaw on clarinet, Glenn Miller is on trombone. (American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942, Rust, c. 1973) Blue Moon has a checkered past as far as the lyrics go. It's a Rogers and Hart song that was originally meant for a movie with Jean Harlow in 1933. It really goes to show just how important the right lyrics are in making a hit song. The original lyrics just don't make it:
  OH, Lord! If you're not busy up there,
  I ask for help in a prayer,
  So please don't give me the air...
  The 10" is a dub from the 12" ain't it ? A tightly squeezed record that 10" record is, and inferior to the 12" from a SQ point of view.
  The 10" is a dub from the 12" ain't it ? A tightly squeezed record that 10" record is, and inferior to the 12" from a SQ point of view.[/quote]
  I read somewhere that Victor edited the 12-inch recording down to a shorter running time, and issued the edited version on 10-inch discs presumably for use in jukeboxes and probably air-play as well.
  So it seems to me, since this was still recorded direct-to-disc before magnetic tape, that the 12-inch version would sound better as it would have been pressed from original parts.
  In my opinion, no period dub is equal in quality to the original. I'll have to pull my 10" copy of this out and compare. While I wanted it for completeness, I've never played it, afraid that I'd be too disappointed. Now all this talk has me curious! I don't know how you'd dub a 12" side onto a 10" disc, though.
  There were a lot of dubs done by Victor postwar, it seems. I can't recall a "Re Issued By Request" Victor disc that wasn't a dub. Additionally, a lot of late Victor and RCA Victor reissue album sets are dubbed sides.
  Somewhere around 1946-ish if I recall they changed groove size, and I'd imagine this to be why later issues of prewar sides are dubs.
  Oh, and sorry, but this set is now sold.
  I don't know how you'd dub a 12" side onto a 10" disc, though.
  Frequency range roll off - particularly in the bass end, possibly a smaller cutting stylus, dynamic range compression. I have at least two copies of the 10" ICGS and the grooves run right up to the label.
  You must have a different issue than I have, then. Mine is the same record with the intro cut off and a very abrupt fade out after the vocal... more of an edit than a dub, although I guess it could be a dubbed edit.
  I included a pic of the original earlier Vocalion version just because.
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  Maybe I have a different issue, maybe I'm not remembering correctly some details, the records are in unsorted boxes. I have the Symposium of Swing 12" album and that's what I'd play.