[78-L] Alex Steinweiss article

[David Lennick]

It looks as if the Earl Robinson set dates from 1940, sorry (per Bear Family: 
Songs for Political Action). The Sandburg album's matrix numbers predate many 
other Musicraft and Musicraft client records so it's probably 1937.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> I have a few of those: the Robinson and the Sandburg. I can scan these two. More! More!
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
>> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:46:08 -0500
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Alex Steinweiss article
>>
>> Okay..I can't scan, but I'll toss out some suggestions and maybe links can be 
>> found to these.
>>
>> Victor--Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Album (P-4) (1936)
>> 	Molly Picon--Jewish Melodies (S-25)
>>
>> Brunswick--Show Boat, Blackbirds (1932-3)
>>
>> Decca--Wizard of Oz, Gulliver's Travels (1939) + lots earlier
>>
>> HMV--Gondoliers and other Gilbert & Sullivan sets (pre-1920)
>>
>> Columbia--Julius Caesar, King Richard II (1938)
>>
>> Timely--Earl Robinson: Songs for Americans (8-W)
>>
>> Musicraft--Carl Sandburg: From the American Songbag (Album 11)
>>
>> dl
>>
>> fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
>>> This is important! While the ramblings of a delightful bunch of old coots is very enjoyable, it's not evidence. People saying "Steinweiss wasn't first" aren't any more reliable than people saying "Steinweiss was first" without some solid documentary proof. Without it, journalists and authors are right to ignore us.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 11:52:04 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Alex Steinweiss article
>>>
>>>
>>> Liesl Bradner has asked me for permission to print my comments as a letter-to-the-editor, to be published in next Sunday's L.A. Times Calendar edition. She also would like to get a link showing examples of illustrated album design pre-Steinweiss. If anyone has some of the items Mike Biel mentioned and can send me a link or a scan of them, I would appreciate it. My deadline for getting this in is Wednesday. I will need to trim my letter to make it concise. The way it is now, the Times editors would hack my current letter to pieces.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>
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