[78-L] Bing's WHITE XMAS

[David Lennick]

Special Products usually added A to the last known catalog number when 
reissuing something intact (as opposed to a compilation), hence C-55 becoming 
AC-55. Funny that they didn't make a bigger deal of it and put it into the 
regular catalog.

There must be some classical sets that qualify as having never been out of 
print from 78 to CD. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concertos and the Rhapsody (played by 
SVR himself of course) seem to have been continuously available. The Beethoven 
Piano Sonatas with Schnabel? Mahler's 9th with Bruno Walter?

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> 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.
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> Randy 
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> --- 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 
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