[78-L] Bing's WHITE XMAS

[Randy Watts]

I have AC 55, but didn't realize that was the first-ever LP issue of the '32 SHOW BOAT. Being on Columbia Special Products, I just assumed it was a reissue of an earlier LP.

Randy 


--- On Sun, 12/28/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bing's WHITE XMAS
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 8:02 PM
> Showboat probably doesn't qualify..it didn't appear
> on LP till Columbia Special 
> Products brought it out as AC 55 (the exact same number as
> its long 78 issue on 
> red Columbia) in the late 60s.
> 
> dl
> 
> Randy Watts wrote:
> > Didn't even think about OKLAHOMA!
> > 
> > Not sure that the 1932 SHOW BOAT qualifies as being in
> print continuously. Couldn't find it in Columbia's
> 1952-53 catalog or in the 1949 list I have of their
> available 78 rpm albums. Maybe Columbia "retired"
> that version for a few years after the 1946 revival cast
> album came out.
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Michael Biel
> <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Bing's WHITE XMAS
> >> To: "78-L Mail List"
> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 7:22 AM
> >> djwein at earthlink.net wrote:
> >>> The Columbia-Brunswick SHOW BOAT -
> continuously from
> >> 78 in 1932 to Sony CD today.
> >>> Decca OKLAHOMA & CAROUSEL - continuously
> from 1943
> >> and 1945 respectively.
> >>> Dave W.
> >>>   
> >> Porgy and Bess 1939 thru now?   Was there a time
> break
> >> between the gold 
> >> cover Brunswick Show Boat and the blue cover
> Columbia C-55?
> >>  Of course 
> >> in the case of P&B and Oklahoma there were
> extra tracks
> >> in Vols 2 that 
> >> were added later to the LPs.  Is all of P&B
> Vol 3 on
> >> the CD? 
> >>
> >> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>   
> >>>> From: Randy Watts
> <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
> >>>> Sent: Dec 27, 2008 11:46 PM
> >>>> To: 78-L Mail List
> >> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>>> Subject: [78-L] Bing's "Merry
> >> Christmas" album
> >>>>
> >>>> Discussion of Bing's "White
> >> Christmas" and his MERRY CHRISTMAS album led
> me to
> >> wonder if anyone knows of an album that has been
> >> continuously in print longer than that one,
> allowing for
> >> format changes (78 rpm set to 10-inch LP to
> 12-inch LP to
> >> compact disc, with side trips to EP, open reel,
> 8-track, and
> >> cassette) from 1945 to the present. It's still
> in print
> >> today as it was released on 12-inch, albeit with
> the album
> >> title changed to WHITE CHRISTMAS at some point in
> the last
> >> few years. Same track line-up, though, and same
> painting of
> >> Bing in a Santa Claus cap on the cover.
> >>>> Randy