[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[David Lennick]

I have the dates for some of the second album but not where I can put my hands 
on them..on a Naxos CD, of which my only unsealed copy is in the car (and it's 
freezing out there and I got a nice Mahler Symphony in here, so you do the 
math). But because of the impending AFM ban, all recordings with musical 
content had to be in the can by midnight, December 31, 1947 (midnight seems to 
have lasted several hours at some studios). Spoken word could still have been 
recorded in 1948.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Going through Tyrone's listings, I found the two numbers bookending
> the Borge block:  HCO.3011, a Harry James title on 38380 recorded 19th
> December 1947, and HCO.3020, another HJ title on 38245, recorded on
> the 20th.  Which data at least narrows it down to one or both of these
> dates, for the album's content.
> 
> On 3/2/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>