[78-L] Victor Herbert Discography

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 12 06:54:58 PST 2009


PS--I won't speculate whether VH conducted the Berliner sides (I can't
remember what they said about whether VH was there or not.)

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I remember the 3 LP set.  Keokuk, Iowa's public library had it.  There was
> only one Zonophone recording in it, by what was billed as 'Victor Herbert's
> Orchestra' but they said they weren't 100% certain he'd conducted the side
> in question (and I can't remember the title, only that it was a 7" disc from
> circa 1900).
>
> They had included three Berliners as well, songs from THE FORTUNE TELLER.
> One Berliner was Alice Nielsen singing 'Always do as others say you
> should'.  The transfers suffer from (so they sounded) like the midrange
> around 400 to 600 Hz was boosted, and some reverb was also added.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:34 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>
>> There was a 3-LP set of Herbert issued by Smithsonian back in the 70s.
>> I'll dig
>> it out.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
>> > Is there any discography available for recordings of Victor Herbert's
>> Band, and also any information as to whether he personally conducted for the
>> recordings of the bands earliest efforts on Berliner and Zonophone ?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Bruce
>>
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