First-year pressing
Now Is The Hour 1947 US Pressing (24279)
Now Is The Hour / Silver Threads Among The Gold by Bing Crosby
- Artist
- Bing Crosby With The Ken Darby Choir
- Title
- Now Is The Hour / Silver Threads Among The Gold
- Label
- Decca 24279
- Country
- US
- Released
- 1947
- Format
- Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Runout and matrix codes
Etched or stamped in the dead wax between the last track and the label. If yours match, you have this pressing.
- L 4541A side label
- L 4542B side label
- WL4541T11AA side stamped variant 1
- WL4542T14AB side stamped variant 1
- WL4541T96A 8 14 ②A side stamped variant 2
- WL4542T131A 13 ②B side stamped variant 2
- WL4541T2A ④A side stamped variant 3
- WL4542T23A ④B side stamped variant 3
- WL4541T2A ④A side stamped variant 4
- WL4642T17AB side stamped variant 4
Other US pressings of Now Is The Hour
- 1947Decca 24279Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
- 1950Decca 9-242797", 45 RPM, Reissue
- 1957Decca 9-242797", 45 RPM, Single, Reissue, Repress
- ?Decca 242797", 45 RPM, Reissue