[78-L] Musicraft Records (was MAJESTIC Records questions)

[zimrec at juno.com]

The Buffalo Philharmonic is session number 144, mxs 5825 thru 5840, inclusive - Dec 4, 1946.

Re the Cantor: Yes, it was a children's album, or at least, intended to be.  I've never actually seen the 78 rpm album, if it exists.  The titles were issued on a budget LP - Royale, or some similar label that had reissued Musicraft masters.  Does the 78 rpm album on Musicraft label actually exist?  If so, what is the set number and what are the catalog numbers of the records that make up the set?

Would like to know what Musicraft mxs 5843 thru 5922 are - roughly latter part of Dec 1946 thru mid-Oct 1947.  Likewise, mx 6079 thru 6123.  That's a large stretch, but accounts for only two recording sessions: numbers 194 & 195.

As previously stated, session 196, Carl Sandberg - mxs 6124 thru 6133 - July 1, 1948 is the last regularly numbered session for which I had copies of the recording sheets.  The prior session for which I had documentations was number 193 - King Odom Quartet & Polka Dots - mxs 6075 thru 6078 - Jan 12, 1948.  Between the two sessions were 45 matrices, which means that at least one of the two intervening sessions was a relatively monumental undertaking.

Art

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:47:23 -0400
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Somewhere in there is Musicraft's only recording of a symphony orchestra: the 
Buffalo Philharmonic under William Steinberg playing the Shostakovich 7th. 
Matrix numbers are 5825/40 and they fell between two Duke Ellington sets of 
numbers in December 1946.

I forgot about that Eddie Cantor set..it's a children's album.

dl


zimrec at juno.com wrote:
> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:17:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dan Van Landingham <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] MAJESTIC Records questions
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 
> <snip>
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> Years ago (late 1970s?), when Jerry Valburn was involved with Oliver Sabin in 
reissuing the Musicraft material, at one time, I had in my possession, the original and / 
or photocopies of the recording ledgers sheets for most of the 1944-46 period sessions.  
I no longer recall under what circumstance I returned those sheets, but for some reason, 
possibly to assist Jim Doran with his monograph, I retained, and still have, the original 
session sheets for the Herman Chittison recordings.
> 
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> 
> Each session was also numbered.  Prior to returning the recording ledgers, I made a 
listing of the sessions, making note of the artist, matrix numbers and dates, but not any 
other information.  The earliest session is number 1, Phil Brito (Paul Lavalle), January 
13, 1944, mxs 5112 thru 5117.  The last is 196, Carl Sandberg, July 1, 1948, mxs 6124 
thru 6133.  There were also 15 sessions preceded by the prefix C.  These date from July 5 
thru Nov 29, 1946.  There seems to have been an error in Musicraft's record keeping 
because they labeled two sessions as C-8 and none as C-9.  The dates and matrix numbers 
for the two C-8 sessions do not coincide sequentially.  Because the other C-prefix 
sessions follow a chronological order, I assume the Cantor session should be C-8 and the 
Shaw session of Sep 10 should really be C-9.  They are as follows:
> 
> Eddie Cantor with Carmen Dragon Orch - mx 5656 thru 5659 - Aug 28, 1946
> Artir Shaw Orch - mx 5636 & 5647 - Sep 10, 1946.
> 
> There were a number of sessions for which I had no sheets, including the run of 
sessions 147 thru 160.  Number 146 is Duke Ellington, Dec 18, 1946 and number 160 is Shep 
Fields, Oct 22, 1947.
> 
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