[78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album

[Randy Watts]

I've got a couple of ten-inch Dot albums. One by the Fontane Sisters and one by the Hilltoppers. Dot started around 1953-54, didn't they? Wouldn't imagine they did very many of the smaller LPs.

Randy

--- On Thu, 11/20/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 10:51 PM
> Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever
> seen a ten-inch Dot LP. They 
> were still around in Dot's early days, but the earliest
> Dot LPs I remember are 
> things like The Ten Commandments.
> 
> dl
> 
> Randy Watts wrote:
> > Yes, that was originally on Dot, and yes, that really
> is the entire album. Given its brevity, Dot could just as
> well have pressed it up as a ten-inch LP.
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Thu, 11/20/08, David Lennick
> <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> Subject: [78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album
> >> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> >> Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 10:36 PM
> >> Not really OT since the Mills Brothers were on 78s
> for
> >> years. Yesterday I came 
> >> across a 1987 reissue on an MCA LP (15029) of The
> Mills
> >> Brothers: Merry 
> >> Christmas. Was this originally on Dot? Did it have
> more
> >> than 12 tracks then? 
> >> Ludicrously short sides, barely 12 minutes each.
> The
> >> lettering of the title on 
> >> the back cover rings a (Christmas) bell...each
> letter looks
> >> hand-drawn.
> >>
> >> dl
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