[78-L] Steinweiss and illustrated album covers

[Bill McClung]

Maybe I should be reading with more understanding but I never thought he
was making the claim Steinweiss INVENTED the illustrated album cover.  I
always thought he was saying Steinweiss's album covers were the first
MODERN album covers.  I always thought it was a celebration of his style
not a claim to his invention.

I'm on the road in scenic Amarillo so when I get home this weekend I guess
I'll do some careful reading.


> [Original Message]
> From: <fnarf at comcast.net>
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> Date: 5/21/2009 11:13:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Steinweiss and illustrated album covers
>
> Steinweiss started his Columbia covers in 1938, before WWII.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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> O.K. How about:
> "Rhapsody In Blue" Oscar Levant w/ Phil. Orch.Eugene Ormandy - Columbia
MX 
> 251
> "Ballad For Americans" Paul Robeson w/ Nat Shilkret, Conductor - Victor
P-20
>
> Others are listed and illustrated on the inside back cover of the
Gershwin 
> Columbia album:
>
> These may already have been posted and if so I apologize
> .
> Brahms Symphony No. 4 Phila Orch. Ormandy Sets M-MM567
> Offenbach:Gaite Parisienne-London Phil.  Sets X-MX 115
> Grieg-Peer Gynt Suite-Beecham-London-Sets X-MX 180
> Lalo-Symphonie Espagnole-Miltein w/ Phil;a. Ormandy Sets M-MM 564
>
> Several more.
> I can list upon request. All WW II releases  OPA Ceiling Prices are
listed.
>
> Al Simmons
>
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> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:00 AM
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> > From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> >> What about those DSM "Disc" 78 albums from the 40's.......
> >> Al Simmons
> >
> > Those came AFTER Steinweiss started his Columbia covers.  We're looking
> > for covers BEFORE Steinweiss.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >
> >> HMV put out complete Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the late 1910s 
> >> with
> >> gorgeous full colour covers. And the Brunswick Showboat set is
something
> >> to
> >> behold, with the artwork extending across the back cover and signed
> >> photographs
> >> of the performers on the inside.
> >>
> >> Personally, I find Steinweiss's stuff too "adorable" much of the time.
> >> Give me
> >> DSM. If you ever find the DISC album of Prokofiev conducting Romeo and
> >> Juliet
> >> (which is absolutely worthless from a technical standpoint, even if it 
> >> was
> >> pressed on vinyl), that cover is a surrealistic masterpiece and one
> >> character
> >> in it looks exactly like Marlon Brando, a couple of years before anyone
> >> ever
> >> heard of him.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> Sam Hopper wrote:
> >>> This might be of interest regarding examples of 78rpm album work:
> >>>
> >>> http://78rpmalbums.gramophile.com/
> >>>
> >>> Thanks, Sam
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 21/05/2009, at 3:07 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> The recent post about the limited edition STEINWEISS book raises the
> >>>> question of whether he is actually the originator of illustrated
> >>>> record
> >>>> albums.
> >>>> The BUBBLE BOOKS from the teens 20's certainly qualify as illustrated
> >>>> jackets, but
> >>>> I cannot envision popular or classical albums from the early 30's
with
> >>>> illustrated jackets.
> >>>> I hope folks on the list can give examples and perhaps pinpoint when
> >>>> illustrated jackets
> >>>> actually began.
> >>>> Thanks, Thomas.
> >>>>
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