[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[Michael Biel]

Michael Biel wrote:  The send button was clicked while still writing -- 
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> 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 CL 554, 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, so why would he be referring to those?  Other than the other 12-inch album Caught In the Act CL 646, the only other album before the late 50s was the other 10-inch reissue of 78s Brahms, Beethoven and Borge in the 1955-56 House Party series.  So what was he referring to and complaing about???  

> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>   


>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>>>           
>
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