[78-L] Alex Steinweiss article

[Cary Ginell]

The Bubble Book that I have is a book with records inside. There are pages of text inside, with three of the pages being actual sleeves for the 78s, which measure 5 1/2". But I think that it still constitutes a "record album." Remember, her charge was that most albums were contained in plain brown sleeves, while others merely had printed descriptions with no art. I've sent her scans of my Bubble Book plus the link to the Little Wonder/Bubble Book website. Also send her scans of my 1937 Clayton McMichen Decca album and the aforementioned Sandburg item on Musicraft, with one photo taken with the album opened so one can see the different pages of albums and front & back text. 

Cary Ginell

> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:46:56 +0000
> From: fnarf at comcast.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Alex Steinweiss article
> 
> Are Bubble Books records with picture covers and little books inside, or are they books with records inside? Same difference, right? But that's not going to persuade a Steinweiss diehard. But this is good, we're getting somewhere. 
> 
> Remember, scanning these and posting them to the list isn't going to get us anywhere. Ideally, you'd be able to post them somewhere semi-reputable, with an article with citations. I have no idea where that place is going to be. I have a blog, but no one reads it, and it's hardly authoritative. What'd be nice is to sweet-talk some journalist into doing an article entitled "Before Steinweiss".
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Stern" <sternth at attglobal.net>
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> Bubble books at http://www.littlewonderrecords.com/bubble-book-discography.html
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 3:46 PM
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> 
> 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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