[78-L] NOt a 78 BUT do we really need another OC album of "Sound of Music"

[David Lennick]

RCA used green labels in the 50s, possibly till about 1956, then went to red 
for Original Cast albums. Never had them on black. And they were all on that 
orange label by the late 60s.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> I had never realized that the RCA Victor original casts and soundtracks
> were on Red Seal labels in Canada.  They're black label here in the U.S.
>  Leah and I were surprised to find the Sound of Music soundtrack on a
> Red Seal label in the Goodwill in Whitby Ontario last month.  It was
> trashed so we didn't get it, but did get a few Red Seal shows at a great
> store we found in Toronto such as Hello Dolly which had three or four
> different covers in the U.S. and we were curious what the Canadian cover
> would compare.  My best find in that store was a stereo copy of Peter
> Sellers and Sophia Loren on Canadian Angel -- been looking for a stereo
> to supplement my mono copy for 45 years.
> That album had been discussed here a few days earlier.
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> 
>   -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject: Re: [78-L] NOt a 78 BUT do we really need another OC album of
>  "Sound of Music"
>  From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>  Date: Tue, November 03, 2009 10:23 pm
>  To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  
>  I would have to disagree. Sound of Music got terrible reviews when it
> opened on 
>  Broadway and the album didn't do that well. The soundtrack album was
> another 
>  story. And I don't encounter either one as often as I turn up Fiddler
> on the 
>  Roof or West Side Story or Brigadoon or another Rodgers & Hammerstein
> show that 
>  didn't do too badly for itself. And My Fair Lady..every 5th album you
> see is My 
>  Fair Lady.
>  
>  dl
>  
>  Steve Ramm wrote:
>  > Okay, after "Oklahoma", what is the most common Original Cast album
> you find when looking through LP collections? THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Well,
> it's now 50 years old and Sony just issued it on CD again! Okay there
> are 3 bonus tracks - Julie and Carol Burnett from their Carnegie Hall
> show, Edelweiss from a Vienna Production and Climb Ev'ry Mountain in
> SWEDISH! 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Wonder if this will be a big seller ;-)
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Steve Ramm
>  > 
>