[78-L] Keynote Kuriosity

[David Lennick]

Chorus, Choir, Potato, Tomato. The likely explanation is that Keynote had a few 
singles by the group and decided to combine some of them in an album. My set 
contains K201, K208, K209 and K210. The lyrics for all are printed in the 
album, so these are the intended sides, even if not all of them say K103 on the 
label (and K209 and K210 don't). The titles vary as well.."If Tomorrow Brings 
War" in the printed lyrics, "If War Breaks Out Tomorrow" on the label.

K201 is the only disc to show Keynote numbers in the dead grooves. The others 
all show the original USSR issue numbers. All were dubbed at Reeves from USSR 
original pressings which were imported for sale at the NY World's Fair in 1939 
(the records showed up but the Soviets didn't, and when the original pressings 
sold out, "Stinson Trading Company" had new masters cut and began selling them 
with nameless labels similar to the Russian labels, and obviously leased or 
traded masters to Keynote).

If K207 says Set 103 on the label, somebody was confused..! What songs are on it?

dl

Glenn Longwell wrote:
> The songs on my K 207 (which clearly states Set 103 on the label) are "Kalinka" (mx. 7696) and "In the Moonlit Meadows" (mx. 6228).  Is it the same on yours?  Another oddity is that the album says Red Army Chorus yet all the records say Red Army Choir.
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> Glenn
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> --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Keynote Kuriosity
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009, 11:28 PM
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> That's odd. I have disc K 207 as part of Keynote album 110 (FOLK SONGS OF THE U.S.S.R).
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> Randy
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> --- On Thu, 10/8/09, Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net> wrote:
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>> 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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