[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

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That second Borge set was really tough to find. I saw one in the '70s and didn't find another copy until I won it on hoo-HAH for only five bucks. 


Cary Ginell


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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor Borge on 78



Okay, I have dates for four of the sides in C161.

HCO 3012-1  BIZET'S CARMEN      December 20/47
HCO 3013-1  UNSTARTED SYMPHONY  December 20/47
HCO 3017-1  INFLATION LANGUAGE  December 22/47
HCO 3019-1  CLEAR DE SALOON     December 23/47

The others are obviously within the same 3 day period. Information is from a 
listmember who has the complete matrix numbers for Red Columbias but who might 
not want to be inundated with requests. This stuff must be out there somewhere, 
no? Masterworks (Blue Columbia) info is on the CHARM site from about the mid 
30s right to the end of the LP era.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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 S
un, 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
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