[78-L] Steinweiss and illustrated album covers

[simmonssomer]

O.K. Didn't mean to discombobulate.
Time Marches On.

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Steinweiss and illustrated album covers


> Al, I don't understand what you are listing these albums for.  Every
> single one of these were DESIGNED BY Steinweiss!  The discussion is
> about the history of the illustrated album cover BEFORE Steinweiss.
>
> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
>
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Steinweiss and illustrated album covers
>
>
>> 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.
>>>>>