[78-L] The Record Collector. Vol. 53 No. 3. BELHOMME.

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Oct 20 20:54:28 PDT 2008


Hmm..I provided some info for Larry a couple of months ago (regarding Thomas L. 
Thomas, I think). I wonder if that's appeared yet?

dl

Erwin Kluwer wrote:
> these are my desert 8 trough differnt genres:
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> Blind Lemon:  Got the Blues
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> Jimmy Rodgers: Mule skinners Blues
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> Charley Patton, Down the Dirt Road Blues
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> Frank jenkins (of da Costa waltz Broadcaster) Roving Cowboy
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> Dennis Mcgee: my little creole baby (but then in patois)-vocalion
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> Eck Robertson: Sally Goodin victor 1922
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> King Oliver Creole jazz band: Canal Street Blues
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> Joseph Joachim violinHungarian dances (I hink I'll  take  number one..)
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> These I will hold on till I die and probably take them down yonder....
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Erwin Kluwer <ekluwer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't have the magazine...
>>
>> bit it seems fun to ttrough in my list of Desert Island opera vocal
>> discs... in random order.....
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>> 1) Ivan Yershov... Sopra Bertha
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>> 2) Pol Plancon- air de Tambour aria 1902 version
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>> 3) Caruso Amor ti vieta 1902
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>> 4) Battistini eveningstar tannhauser 1902
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>> 4) Antov van Rooy Wotans farewell
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>> 5) Rienzi aria Edison.... 1915? Urlus
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>> 6) Frida Leider/Melchior springsong walkure Polydor 1924?
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>> 7) Ruffo and Caruso in Otello
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>> 8) one of  deReszke Fonotipia's
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>> Try to make up of a shortlist of top 78's trough all genres now...
>>
>> Erwin
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>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Spats <spats47 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I just received the new issue of The Record Collector.
>>> (This is an indispensable magazine, I think, for the opera record collector...
>>> ...I delighted that I have all of them).
>>>
>>> This issue is a particularly fine one!
>>>
>>> Firstly, it continues the series of 'Desert
>>> Island Discs', wherein collectors choose their 8
>>> 'sine qua non' records. I found the piece written
>>> by a certain 'Earl Okin' fascinating reading
>>> indeed! ;-)
>>>
>>> Then there are biographies and discographies of
>>> two singers who are both very under-estimated and
>>> whose records I certainly collect. Firstly, the
>>> Spenish coloratura, Josefina Huguet and then the
>>> French bass, Hippolyte Belhomme, mostly known on
>>> Pathé records. The discography was written
>>> Christian Zwarg and to him, I'd like to ask the
>>> following question.
>>>
>>> Knowing how apparently without any logic at all
>>> that Pathé seemed to run their catalogue numbers,
>>> how were the recording dates, as accurately as
>>> the month, ascertained?
>>>
>>> Secondly, in response to his request for more
>>> transfer serial numbers, I offer these...
>>>
>>> 55. 4554 (9913BC).
>>> 91. 354. (40827GR).
>>> 139. 400. (43516GR).
>>>
>>> I also own...
>>>
>>> 104. 703...
>>>
>>> ...issued on DISQUES HENRI 6.
>>>
>>> Earl Okin.
>>>
>>> PS For those not already receiving this quarterly magazine, just e-mail to...
>>>
>>> larry.lustig at therecordcollector.org
>>>
>>> Of-course, the Web site URL is...
>>>
>>> http://www.therecordcollector.org



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