[78-L] Story of the Lp

[Royal Pemberton]

I didn't know anything about the HL 9000 series at all; I'd only seen the
numerical series and handful of titles listed on a few Columbia 78 sleeves.
Thanks for the info!

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:12 AM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> 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).
> >>
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