[78-L] Frank Luther on Victor

[agp]

One of the best things about being horridly disorganised is that you 
are always re-finding things and saying 'Wow! I didn't know that I had that!'

And so it was as I was digging though my 45s (what?) to dig out all 
of my Canadian Content stuff and set it aside. Wow -- a lot of stuff 
-- thanks to listening to CHUM before it got screwed up. Enough of 
that soapbox though. As it were, I bought a bunch of stuff at a 
record store in the Lincoln Fields Shopping Centre in Ottawa. And 
with that stack was a 78 -- a 7 inch 78.

What it is a child's record on from RCA Victor Canada and is on His 
Masters Voice/ Victor catalog 223. It has a batwing label. Oh and 
apart from being a 7 inch, it is easily twice as thick as a regular 
78. Oh -- and the content. It appears to be a part of a set called 
Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin Songs. This is sides 5 and 6 of 
the set and is Buckingham Palace on the a-side and Vespers on the b. 
The artist Frank Luther an it says Tenor with violin, clarinet and 
piano. Its carries a copyright of Stephen Slezinger, NY. Oh -- it has 
a VE (in a diamond) stamp in the run out grooves.

I'm guessing this is from his 1933 sessions for Victor. Wikipedia 
says these where 6 inch records, though.. well they do indeed have 6 
inches in as much as one must have 6 to have the 7 that this does.

So -- background on this please

T