[78-L] Obie item?

[David Lennick]

I meant Canadian Musicana, not Musicraft. The album comes with raves about this 
venture and the need for Opera in English for Americans!!!! Canadian issue 
numbers are 8000 A thru D (side numbers). I don't know if the other sets 
appeared in Canada and this one isn't common either.

dl

Glenn Longwell wrote:
> Peter Muldavin's book has this dated to 1946.  Only four sets of two records have been identified to date including this one.  The only name mentioned with the label is George Wechsler.
>  
> Glenn
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/23/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Obie item?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, November 23, 2009, 10:54 PM
> 
> 
> I don't think that's an Obie item..but I'm surprised to find it on vinyl. I 
> believe I finally got an intact copy of it, either on US issue or Canadian 
> Musicraft, with the album..it's a hilarious (unintentionally) mangling of 
> Carmen for kiddies. Okay, Spike Jones was probably funnier.
> 
> Obie or someone like him DID steal (or have questionable rights to) the 1942 
> World's Greatest Opera sets, done with anonymous second-string Met singers, and 
> put them out both as straight transfers to LP (on World's Greatest, I think) 
> and with spliced-in narration by Milton Cross (on Parade).
> 
> dl
> 
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> Found this among  a small stack of VERY miscellaneous 78's (probably from a 
>> CAPS
>> auction...?!):
>>
>> "Classic Records, Inc." Young People's Opera House
>>
>> Record numbered  500A/500D ("Part 1/Part 4").
>>
>> "Bizet's 'Carmen'" Orchestra directed by Frederick Kramer
>> No matrix numbers shown; record appears to be vinyl or similar plastic (very 
>> light in
>> weight and very flexible)!
>>
>> Was this one of Obie's projects? If so, c. when?
>>
>> Steven C. Barr 
>>