[78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album

[Randy Watts]

Gart dates Dot to January 1950. 

...just to correct myself.

Randy


--- On Fri, 11/21/08, Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mills Brothers Christmas Album
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 12:20 AM
> 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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