[78-L] Victor Borge on 78

[Michael Biel]

soundthink at aol.com wrote:
> 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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>   

Yes, I was really tickled when I found my first copy, and Leah is now 
REALLY tickled that I found another last week -- for five bucks --  
because now she can have one in Brooklyn. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 8:42 am
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor Borge on 78
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> 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:
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>>>> --- On S
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> un, 3/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> 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 
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>>> 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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