[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[Michael Biel]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Tyrone Settlemier's site, 78discography.com.
>
> On 3/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Okay, where are you finding those dates? I know one other list member who
>> has
>> the complete info on red Columbias.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>     
>>> 'Phonetic pronunciation' was in the album A VICTOR BORGE PROGRAM,
>>> issued here on 78 rpm as album C 111, later on 10 inch LP CL 6013.
>>>
>>>       

My copies of these are autographed.  Last week I picked up my second 
copy of Borge's other Columbia 78 album, An Evening With Victor Borge, C 
161, record numbers 38131-34, matrices HCO 3012-18.  There is a 
copyright date on the front cover of 1948. What are the recording 
dates?   While introducing the Warsaw Concerto in the concluding section 
of his first live album, Comedy In Music, which was recorded during the 
1953 Boston tryout of his one man show on the way to Broadway, he says: 
"I've recorded another album for Columbia which seems to be a secret."  
Now, since he was stating this in the FIRST of the two 12-inch LPs that 
were issued during that era, what album was he referring to ON the 
album?????  It had to be an album that was on the market because his 
sarcastic comment about it seeming to be a secret was a joke about it 
not selling.  Therefore it couldn't be either of the 12-inch albums 
because neither had been released prior to him recording the first of 
the two!  Both C 161 and CL 6013 were released in 1948 which was five 
years prior to the 1953
>>> Here's the contents of C 111:
>>>
>>> 36911  'Phonetic pronunciation'  (part 1)//mx HCO.1482-1, recorded
>>> 20th July 1945, Hollywood
>>> b/w  'Phonetic pronunciation' (part 2)//mx HCO.1483-1, same date and
>>> location
>>>
>>> 36912  'A lesson in composition'//mx HCO.1481-1, recorded 20th July
>>> 1945, Hollywood
>>> b/w  'The blue serenade'//mx CO.34675-1, recorded 8 May 1945, New York
>>>
>>> 36913  'Grieg rhapsody'//mx CO.34674-1, recorded 8 May 1945, New York
>>> b/w  'Bhrams' lullaby'//mx CO.34676-1, recorded 8 May 1945, New York
>>>
>>> 36914  'A Mozart opera by Borge'//mx CO.35253-1, recorded 27 September
>>> 1945, New York
>>> b/w  'All the things you are'//mx CO.34677-1, recorded 8 May 1945, New
>>> York
>>>
>>> On 3/1/09, agp <agp2176 at verizon.net> 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
>>>>
>>>>