[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[Michael Biel]

I haven't been looking long, but I am not finding anything remotely 
approaching a Borge discography on line, especially some sites claiming 
to BE a "Borge Discography".  They mostly discuss only CD's with the 
release dates being the date of the CD, not the original, and the one 
site (All Music) that did list some of the LPs that never made it to CD 
does not mention "Concert Favorites", the non-comedy all-music 
Columbia.  And considering what dl said about the 12/31/47 pre-strike 
deadline for musical recordings, five of the eight sides on the second 
78 set are all music and no talk, two are talk and piano, and one is all 
talk.  So that one, "Inflation (sic.) Language"  would have been the 
only one that could have been recorded in 1948, but was still done in 
Dec 47. 

Considering the info that has been put here concerning the 10-inch 
varieties, maybe we should do it.  What I would especially want would be 
the Europeans to get me info on his pre-war European recordings.  I 
think I've mentioned that when I met him I asked him if he had made any 
recordings there and he said yes with no further info.  I later found 
one, an HMV of a two sided non-musical comedy routine in Danish about 
going to a restaurant.  He is identified as Borge Rosenbaum, of course. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


David Lennick wrote:
> 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