[78-L] DESIGN LP--was: Re: Unexpected ET (was NON-sexy!) LP

[David Lennick]

Not a word about my cheesecake copy of DLP-X18. The number is there, but 
minimal information, only 4 of the tracks listed..this bears watching.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Start here:  http://www.bsnpubs.com/pickwick/designstory.html
> 
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <david.diehl at hensteeth.com>
>>> I would guess the 1954 Victor release of the Fats Waller Associated ET
>>> material on LPT6001 was probably the first, at least on a major label.
>> Obie
>>> leased a lot of Standard ET things a year or two later. Decca used World
>>> masters in the 1940's but that was a special case.
>>>> From: Steven C. Barr Makes sense...! When (about) were 78-like
>>>> "transcription tracks" of pop dancemusic first issued?
>> What I am/was asking about is a Design LP I owned almost half-a-century
>> ago! It was in my "first set of in-laws'" LP accumulation...I used to play
>> it on
>> every visit, and they fanally GAVE me the dommed thing! Of course, it has
>> now long since been stolen...I have had ALL my LP's stolen at least
>> twice...
>> and most recently (early 1997) had all my LP's sold off for c. $100 (this
>> was about 400 albums, inclusing a LOT of blues rarities and many UK
>> 78-reissue LP's as well!).
>>
>> Fortunately, I still owned the Design LP after I started collecting
>> 78's...and
>> was able to compare its musical content to ARC 78's I had acquired. The
>> LP tracks were audibly NOT the ARC 78 sides...though they seemed to
>> use the same arrangements! These were pop "dance tunes" from c. 1934...
>> a "sub-category" of recorded music which I still enjoy listening to...!
>>
>> Now...does there exist on the Internet a database listing these old Design
>> LP's? This is an album I would very much enjoy RE-acquiring...!!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
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