[78-L] Earl Robinson TIMELY records was Keynote Kuriosity

[Thomas Stern]

Timely album
SONGS FOR AMERICANS
500-504 (mx 2575-77; 2593-2599)
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 Horace Greeley
 Grey goose
 Jesse James
 John Henry
 Joe Hill
 John Brown.
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-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Robert Shirer
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 1:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Keynote Kuriosity


I have the "Her Name Was Truth" album.  It is quite interesting and good;
don't know much about it beyond that.  I also have the Timely Earl Robinson
set which has sleeves for five disks, but only has four.  Does anyone have a
fifth?
Bob Shirer


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Keynote Kuriosity


>I have it with 4, and some of those sides duplicate discs pressed by what
>was
> then Stinson Trading Company and have the same matrix numbers (and same
> style
> of cutting, done at Reeves). Since they were all essentially pirated from
> USSR
> originals, I guess sharing was no big deal. There are a few Keynote
> singles by
> the Red Army Choir, including the Internationale.
>
> Seems to me there's a Timely set (Earl Robinson?) which exists with more
> than
> the normal 4 discs it's supposed to have.
>
> And while looking for that one, I came across the Stinson set "Her Name
> Was
> Truth", narrated by Canada Lee..anybody know anything about that album?
>
> dl
>
>
>
> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>> Since Keynote has come up in recent posts I've been wondering about a
>> recent find.
>>
>> Last weekend I came home with the Keynote album of the Red Army Chorus of
>> the U.S.S.R., Album 103.  The album lists 8 songs with lyrics on the
>> inside of the front cover and the album has sleeves to hold 4 records.
>> Yet, the album had 5 records in it.  Four of them cover the 8 songs
>> listed on the inside cover.  The fifth, the only that actually says Album
>> 103 on the label, has two songs which are not listed on the cover.  This
>> last record is K-207.  The others, which hold the 8 songs listed on the
>> album are K-201, K-208, K-209, K-210.
>>
>> I'm just wondering if they sold this as a 5 record album or you had to
>> buy the 5th record separately.  Or perhaps they added it later and
>> starting sticking two records into one sleeve to sell it as a 5 record
>> set. You would think the numbers would be consecutive for the records
>> with the songs listed.  Anyone else have this with the 5 records?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Glenn
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