[78-L] Blackbirds of 1928 album, Was: Upcoming Steinweiss book

[David Lennick]

I've seen the Brunswick Show Boat album in two collections, one of them being 
mine (cost me ludicrous bucks to obtain because the idiot seller was in Wales 
and went off-line before I could direct him to send it to an English company 
that would have sent it to me very cheap). The Blackbirds cover I've seen only 
on the LP reissue, and it was altered.

dl

Philip Fukuda wrote:
>  
> Michael,
> Your description of the Blackbirds set is tantalizing! What does it look like? The records are fairly common, but I've never seen the album.
> 
> I think another rare one is the Brunswick Show Boat set from '32. Later reissued on Columbia.
> 
> Philip Fukuda
>  > From: Michael Biel 
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>> While Cary has that Jimmie Rogers album from 1933 that he thinks was 
>> sold empty, I am talking about regular numbered albums sold with 
>> specific records.  Decca's 1941 catalog, copyright 1940, includes the 
>> album numerical listing thru number 199, most -- if not all -- of them 
>> issued with illustrated covers prior to Steinweiss's first album cover.  
>> And prior to Decca, Brunswick (run by the same Jack Kapp) had issued 
>> several albums with GEORGOUS covers, such as Blackbirds of 1928.  Decca 
>> and Bluebird/Victor had issued childrens albums in the 30s with 
>> illustrated covers, and you can count in the Bubble Books which had 
>> illustrations throughout, and the Tiny Tots albums with color covers.  
>> All of you have at least one copy of the Decca Porgy and Bess from 1939, 
>> and that cover is not out of the ordinary for Decca.  I have several 
>> copies of the earlier Victor P&B with Tibbett and they all have an 
>> illustrated cover -- did that originally come out with a plain cover?  I 
>> have Columbia Masterworks Set 340 with ARC era labels that has a 5x7 
>> glossy of Maurice Evans glued on the cover, with the titling printed 
>> below.   And I have other examples even in the 20s.  I know that some of 
>> these are "dead end" since they didn't continue or affect the industry, 
>> but Decca is an example of a long term series that existed prior to, and 
>> continued parrallel to, Steinweiss.  STEINWEISS DID NOT INVENT THE 
>> MODERN ILLUSTRATED ALBUM COVER, HE BORROWED THE IDEA FROM 
>> DECCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  PERIOD.  END OF STORY.
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