[78-L] Borge dates, was Re: 78-L Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4

[David Lennick]

I'm showing December 22 for Inflation Language, but I don't know why..don't 
have the original message that gave me these dates.

dl

burlinson wrote:
> 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
> 
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