[78-L] Story of the Lp

[Michael Biel]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> How about the HL series, which started at HL 9001?  (H as in
> hillbilly.)  I don't have any of those either.
>   

I was limiting my comments to the four series in the initial June 1948 
Columbia release.  I don't think this series was in the July release 
either.  Looking at the very first Schwann, Oct 1949 (I have the 
official anniversary reprint of it) they only list HL 9002 thru 9010.  
The October 1951 Schwann (the next one I have, this time in an original) 
shows HL 9001 as Gene Autry Western Classics with HL 9002 being Gene 
Autry Western Classics 2.  Going back to the Oct 1949 Schwann, they list 
both of them but list Vol 1 as CL 6020!  The Columbia catalog with the 
first release only goes as high as CL 6019. They must have put out CL 
6020 in July or August, but then when they established the HL 9000 
series they took it out of the CL 8000 series and re-numbered it.  Next 
time I go up to R&H I'll try to check their full set of Schwanns to see 
how and when this worked out.  Meanwhile, anybody have either CL 6020 or 
HL 9001??   I don't have any of them either, at least I don't think I 
do.   I wonder if they came out with plain covers or if they were late 
enough to have illustrated covers in their first pressings.  Cary???  
And another interesting note, in that same Columbia 1949 catalog which 
goes thru June 1948 for popular, over on the 78 side they list Autry 
Western Classics as 78 album H-1.  It is illustrated in the color 
montage on the rear cover, and I think I have it.  The album is also on 
the back of the 1948 catalog but there are NO AUTRY records listed in 
the catalog at all.  And only a few singles are listed in the 1947 
catalog, but there are MANY in the 1949!  Strange.  The 1952-1953 
Columbia catalog lists the album as H-l on 78, H-4-1 on 45 and as BOTH 
CL-6020 and HL-9001 on 33.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

The only JL from the first release I have is JL 8004. 
> On 12/2/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>     
>>> S&R Pinsker wrote:
>>>       
>>>> "I have here in my hand", well actually next to the computer, the
>>>> physically oldest LP in
>>>> my collection; ML4004, Serkin playing the Emperor w. Bruno Walter and the
>>>> NY Philh.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I have ML 2001, ML 4001, and CL 600l.  The only "first" I'm missing is
>>> JL 8001.
>>>       
>> Interesting..I don't have JL 8001 either. Never seen it. Or 8003 or 8004,
>> both
>> of which I remember hearing on the radio many times in the 50s. I have JL
>> 8002
>> twice..come to think of it, very few of those JL 8000s have turned up in my
>> collecting experience, and I was actually BUYING kids records when I was a
>> kid.
>> I have JL 8503 (which means there must have been JL 8501 & 8502, neither of
>> which I've ever seen).
>>
>> Dl (my new insignia, patent pending)
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