[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[David Lennick]

The second 78 album was never on LP, as far as I know (except for one or two 
tracks on a House Party Series ten-incher), so he must have been referring to 
CL 6013....?

Comedy in Music, by the way, was also issued (simultaneously with CL 554?) as 
two ten-inchers: CL 6292/3. I think the only other example I've seen of 
Columbia doing that (Capitol did it all the time with classical works that took 
one 12-inch side or two tens) was Liberace's Chopin album.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:  The send button was clicked while still writing -- 
> so check this version of the posting --
>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>