[78-L] Alex Steinweiss article

[martha]

 Pathe (and others?) put out cylinder box lids with photos of the recorded 
opera star, along with illustrations around the box. Their oversized Salon 
issues were especially elaborate .  Will see how much of my Pinafore & 
Mikado covers will fit in the scanner


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:46 PM
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.