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

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> 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
>   

Makes sense to me.  Nigel's listing inflated the 22nd to the 23rd. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 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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