[78-L] Obie item?

[David Lennick]

It's not a YPR product. Matter of fact, it's so bad (total amateur night, and 
laughable English translations) it would have been an inspiration to START a 
label like YPR, just to show how it should be done. "Classic Records Inc." is 
listed in ARLD as a producer of children's records in January 1949, acquired by 
Empire Record Corp. in March of that year, but Peter Muldavin lists it as 1946 
in his Vintage Children's Records. He also says that the orchestra is made up 
of members of the NY Philharmonic. Hey, anything for a buck.

dl

David Lewis 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 > 
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> This sounds like a Young People's Records aka Children's Record Guild project; I'm not familiar with a 500 number series from YPR, but they did do some straight-up music appreciation records, some of which -- such as "Strawinsky" -- came out in the regular YPR series. 
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> Among the winners in the ARSC awards for excellence this time was:
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> Best History:
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> Revolutionizing Children's Records: The Young People's Records and Children's Record Guild Series, 1946-1977; by David Bonner (Scarecrow Press)
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> I suspect that this record might be listed there, if I'm right. 
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> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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