[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[David Lennick]

Hey..now I got competition at Niagara Falls? Oh wait a minute, you were on THIS 
side of the border. I occasionally find amazing stuff at the Sally Ann in 
Niagara Falls NY, like a batch of 33rpm ARC Theater Use discs, or the entire 
Songs Of Our Times series (okay, minus the three "genre" albums like Aeroplane 
Songs).

Borge made two albums for Columbia (which appears to be something of a secret, 
as he yelled on "Comedy in Music"). A-32 is the Canadian version of C-111, A 
Victor Borge Program. The other album is C-161, An Evening with Victor Borge, 
and I don't have the Canadian number handy. Sparton used the green label for 
almost all album sets (Square Dances may be the sole exception) so they could 
charge 75 cents a disc instead of 50 cents while keeping the price the same on 
the red labels up here. They also did not have the OKeh label but issued those 
as 50-cent red label as well.

dl

agp wrote:
> Last year I picked up a bunch of 78s (25 cents a pop for a several 
> albums worth) at a Goodwill in Niagara Falls Ontario. Most of them 
> were every penny of the 25 cents I paid, but a there are a few gems. 
> One of them is a 78 by Victor Borge of his routine 'Phonetic 
> Punctuation. Its split over two sides of Columbia C6229. This is a 
> Canadian pressing by Sparton. My assumption is that it a part of a 
> larger album as it carries the notation A32-1 and A32-2 on the label. 
> The label is a bit different too as it is a deep almost black green 
> -- more so than Columbia Masterworks issues.
> 
> So --was A32 a much larger album of Victor Borge goodies?
> 
> Tony
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