[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[David Lennick]

Randy Watts wrote:
> --- On Sun, 3/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Columbia released a few other twelve-inch LPs as two ten-inchers: "Jazz Goes to College," by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (CL 6321/2), "The Music of Jelly Roll Morton," by Turk Murphy and Wally Rose (CL 6323/4), "A Buck Clayton Jam Session" (CL 6325/6), "Dave Brubeck at Storyville" (CL 6330/1), and "Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy" (CL 6335/6).
> 
> Capitol divided a few twelve-inch pop albums into a pair of ten-inchers, too. A Les Paul and Mary Ford album and Sinatra's "In the Wee Small Hours" for certain. A couple of the Gleason albums, too, I think.
> 
> Randy
> 

And then Capitol reissued some ten-inchers with "two complete albums" on the 
jacket. As for those Columbia double sets, know how many of those I've ever run 
across? Exactly one half of one..Victor Borge Part 1. With a fifteen dollar 
price tag. It's still sitting there.

dl