[78-L] Upcoming Steinweiss book

[Cary Ginell]

I have the very first one done in hillbilly music. It's a Jimmie Rodgers album. It has Rodgers's name on the front and liner notes on the inside cover which shows Rodgers to be still alive at the time, meaning it was produced prior to May 1933. The album cover is depicted in the CMF "Encyclopedia of Country Music," although they used one in much worse condition than the one I have. I guess you were just supposed to put any Rodgers records inside it. I have a later album of this nature of Gene Autry Conqueror discs; also with no specific titles or disc numbers in mind, but a cover photo of Gene. Probably issued no later than 1940.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:25:47 +0000
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Upcoming Steinweiss book
> 
> Yes, they did. Those are the album covers Steinweiss is alleged to have invented, 78 albums. But typically, before Steinweiss and other pioneers (AND OTHER PIONEERS, I will preemptively yell) started putting pictures on the front, they weren't sold with the records, but rather as separate blank albums. Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, the first pictorial 78 albums were sold empty, to be filled with discs by the purchaser, sort of like stamp or coin albums, which they were I think modeled on.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
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> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 1:14:07 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
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> 
> Did not 78 Albums have artwork much like an LP (or Lp) cover? So then, is
> it not just an adaptation of what was already in existence?
> 
> Ron L
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Michael Biel
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:09 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Upcoming Steinweiss book
> 
> Don Cox wrote:
> > So who was the inventor of the modern album cover?
> 
> This supposes that there was an "invention" of the modern album cover by a
> person, not a general trend in the industry. But I suppose, since the Decca
> Album series had about 200 albums, mostly with illustrated covers, by the
> time of Steinweiss's first cover, I suppose the Art Department of Decca
> might be credited. But there are many examples prior to the founding of
> Decca, so I think they were just, to use the words of one of the songs from
> a Decca album, "doin' what comes naturally".
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> 
> > Hello Michael
> >
> > On 25/09/2009, Michael Biel wrote:
> > 
> >> Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> >> 
> >>> http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/search/result.1.htm? 
> >>> show_all=catalogue&search_string=steinweiss&linkbutton=Search
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> BC
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >> Below is a more appropriate URL for the book, and you can view pages
> >> and go to other versions of the book from here.
> >>
> http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/design/all/01099/facts.alex_steinw
> eiss_inventor_of_the_modern_album_cover_art_edition.htm
> >>
> >> Of course Steinweiss was NOT the "inventor" of the modern album cover.
> >> And I would like to know where the bullcrap about Columbia sales
> >> increasing 800% in six months because of the covers comes from. It
> >> doesn't mention that this also was at the time that prices for
> >> Masterworks were cut in half. I bet that had MUCH MORE to do with
> >> increased sales!!!
> >>
> >>
> >> 
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