[78-L] Need to Identify two Acoustic Classical Records

[Christopher Steward]

This was not uncommon with those early Columbias. There were many remade acoustically with the same artists (or, in the case of Henry Wood, His Symphony Orchestra became QHO), and a number with different ones; in this second category are L 1073, 1126, 1133, 1149, 1164, 1169, 1198, 1210/1, 1225, 1235, 1322/3, 1324, 1334, 1343, 1344, 1349, 1396/7, 1410, 1411, 1424, 1439, 1442. L 1365 is listed by Smith & Cosens as Sammons with the QHO & Wood, but the only copy that I've seen has Ellen Tuckfield (piano). L 1396/7 are with Sammons or Caterall playing the Coleridge-Taylor Sonata; has anybody ever seen either of these issues?
  Collecting these Columbias is like wading through a minefield - there are sometimes as many as 4 issues of the same artists with the same catalogue number.
Good hunting,
Chris

--- On Sat, 11/4/09, Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mike Harkin <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Need to Identify two Acoustic Classical Records
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, 11 April, 2009, 9:36 AM

This is extremely interesting:-  A Columbia L listing sent me some years
ago by a 78-eller says it IS the Beethoven 'Spring' sonata, first
issued in Nov 1918 and June 1919 with Sammons and Murdoch, REISSUED August 1923
with Catterall and Murdoch!  US numbers as per Lennick; weird!  I know
UK Col redid acoustic recordings electrically, using the same disc nos.
suffixed with an R, but never heard of them, as far as I can recall, redoing an
acoustic acoustically with different artists!

Well, we are dealing with a record co. here.  Have to check Smith's
Columbia book when I get home, but don't recall its mentioning two sets of
artists....

Mike in Plovdiv