[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4

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The titles on the Columbia album C.161 "An Evening with Victor Borge"
were recorded in Hollywood as follows:

Matrix #         Cat #  Title
HCO.3012  38181 Bizet's Carmen
HCO.3013  38181 Unstarted Symphony
HCO.3014  38182 Intermezzo (A Love Story)
HCO.3015  38182 Stardust
HCO.3016  38183 Excerpt from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2
HCO.3017  38183 Inflation Language
HCO.3018  38184 Hist Hvor Vejen Slaar En Bugt
HCO.3019  38184 Clair De Lune

3012 & 3013 were recorded on December 20th 1947
3014-3016 on December 22nd 1947
3017-3019 on December 23rd 1947

The album was released by Columbia on June 7th 1948

Nigel.


> 
> 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, 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