[78-L] re-issues

[Michael Biel]

I have both the Ginger Rogers "Alice In Wonderland" and "Porgy and Bess
Vol 1" in the 10-inch vinyl size.  The cover of Alice was changed to the
same cover the 10-inch LP had, a wide orange border with a bland black
and white rendition of the original beautiful color Disney cover, and
Porgy was changed to an unnecessarily modernistic artists rendition of
the original photograph.  Having Porgy Vol 1 on 10-inch size allowed it
to match the Vol 2 and Vol 3 which were both originally 10-inch.  Having
Alice on vinyl allowed the records to survive kids -- the 12-inch
shellacs are very prone to crumbling and cracking even in adult hands.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

Re-sending with Burnham's original statement back in quotation marks.

DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Reading the colourful discussion about re-issues reminded me of a record I have which doesn't make any sense at all. It is a 10 inch re-issue of "Sing, Sing, Sing" by Benny Goodman. It's on the "Swing Classic" label and is simply a truncated version of the 12 inch recording. I don't understand why anyone who wanted the piece would want to save a quarter or whatever to buy this shorter version. 

Those WERE dubbed for the juke boxes. And also for people who wanted to
save a
quarter.

> I'm sure there are probably other 12 inch recordings which were similarly released but I don't know of any. 

"I Can't Get Started" by Berigan. Also Jack Teagarden's "Shine" on HRS
(fades
out at about 3:15 and the dub is the shits).

 > I have run into some Decca sets, (like "Song of Norway"), which were
subsequently released in 10 inch versions but I think they did some
groove
squeezing so that all the music was on the smaller records. I'm not
saying
this because I've compared the records but, if I recall, there was some
indication on the label of these being longer playing records. DB


DL: And these weren't dubbed from the 78s but from the original lacquer 
masters, at
the time they also transferred them to LP and 45..just made sense, since
the
shellac pressings were pretty rotten at the best of times and they could
charge
the same for Deccalite. New albums were also issued on longer playing
vinyl 78s
at that time, like Menotti's "The Consul" and "Death of A Salesman".