[78-L] Toscanini LMEs

[Michael Biel]

This entire exchange shows how different our resources are for 
researching 78s (especially pre-42) and LPs.  Although many of us have 
original catalogs from the 78 years we usually dive into discographies.  
But for LPs without exception the only places any of us have looked were 
original artifacts -- Schwann, The Long Player, High Fidelity, and if I 
could I'd have gone to Billboard or driven down to school to go thru the 
New York Times Sunday section 2 and look at the Sam Goody ads!! 

We have also been totally concerned with when the LPs were ISSUED.  How 
often do we consider issue dates of 78s??!!!  The earliest discographies 
in the 30s and 40s were catalog number based and did tend to place 
records in release order.  Once we worked in matrix number order there 
was very little interest in release order, although I have occasionally 
mentioned that the influence of a record on the public can be noted more 
from release date than recording date.  None of us have thought to use 
something like Goldmine's Standard Catalog of American Records!  Looking 
at it there is some basic info of year of release of copies on different 
label formats and this would show when an (e) first came out, but we 
don't trust their research, do we!!!!!!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

David Lennick wrote:
> S&R Pinsker wrote:
>   
>> Will somebody please list the three Toscanini LME discs?
>> Thanks,
>> rdp
>>     
>
> LME 2408: DVORAK: NEW WORLD SYMPHONY
> LME 2409: RESPIGHI: PINES & FOUNTAINS OF ROME
> LME 2410: MUSSORGSKY: PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
>
> Apparently they began working on this as early as the summer of 1958, per the 
> article (by Jack Arthur Somer, the RCA engineer charged with the project).
>
> dl
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