[78-L] Gershwin Porgy rehearsal recording

[David Lennick]

We're not confusing this with the Second Rhapsody, are we? That does have a 
matrix number and Victor's file copy is missing but Ira had one (and I still 
don't know if it was 12" or 16" but I notice that it isn't in the 33RPM matrix 
listing in ARSC Journal). MRC 69986-1, June 26/31, line from WEAF, "Special 
Record of NBC". Don't ask me where I got that info..it's on a typed piece of 
paper I keep in VMB2.

As for the rehearsal, I found this:
"One rehearsal was recorded in the CBS studios on July 19, 1935"
from William Hyland's biography.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=EoKvjKEsf0MC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=%22porgy+and+bess%22+%22rehearsal%22+%221935%22&source=bl&ots=lHP8914JXP&sig=6McmNOqEQnp4N3cL9gnPZQuTz6s&hl=en&ei=M68IS5DREcn-nAfi_8jDCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CCUQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q=%22porgy%20and%20bess%22%20%22rehearsal%22%20%221935%22&f=false

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Drat!  I've held several copies of the original pressing, which I am
> sure is a 16-inch white label RCA.  I've seen it in the NBC collection
> and in Ira's collection at LC, yet all that LC lists is the damn tape
> they made in 1981 calling it a CBS BROADCAST!!!!!  It was a closed,
> secret, private rehearsal, not a BROADCAST for heavens sake!  That is
> what they list as the physical item, the damn tape, not the disc the
> tape was made from.  BLAST THEM.  I don't give a diddly damn about their
> crappy tape (that probably has sticky shed), only the ORIGINAL DISC. 
> They've got the disc, at least two copies of it.  Why in the world
> doesn't their cataloging system include listing the physical description
> of the ORIGINAL item, not their damn dub.  Even the two Feenamint shows
> are listed only by the tape number, not even listing the network/station
> or the air time.   SHEESH.  
> 
> Mike (pissed off right now) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gershwin Porgy rehearsal recording
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Date: Sat, November 21, 2009 7:31 pm
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> If Lennick is on line he can probably find the info quickly, but anybody
>> else who has it, chime in.
>>
>>
>> I quickly need the Matrix number and label info of the Porgy and Bess
>> rehearsal recording from July 19. 1935. I have all the info in my
>> files, but my files are not where I am. Any info on what studio it was
>> recorded in -- from the labels of the original 16-inch pressing, not
>> from CD issues.
>>
>>
> 
> I'm here but I think you have more info than I do..there certainly
> wasn't any 
> on the Mark 56 LP. Was there any on the MusicMasters CD (which I have,
> if I can 
> just remember where)?
> 
> dl
>