[78-L] Frank Luther on Victor

[David Lennick]

Great store..did you know they have storage rooms downstairs? You need to make 
an appointment to go into them (no 78s there).

The Frank Luther disc is part of a set of 3 which was also issued as picture 
discs, in which format they're incredibly rare and go for humongous bucks. But 
they stayed in print as shellac 7-inchers into the 40s. Victor had a few sets 
of kiddie records in the 20s and 30s (the earliest ones, 201+, are acoustical).

dl

agp wrote:
> 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
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