[78-L] Response to Steinweiss article

[Rodger Holtin]

And, speaking of credibility, are you not a current or former broadcaster, and the author of a published work on recordings made during the 78-rpm era, and can you not use that information in your signature of your letter to the Times??

Rodger



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--- On Mon, 12/28/09, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
Subject: [78-L] Response to Steinweiss article
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Monday, December 28, 2009, 5:27 PM


OK, here's what I drafted to the L.A. Times:

Editor,

Regarding Liesl Bradner's article on Alex Steinweiss,  "Father of Album
Art," although Steinweiss did revolutionize album design with his work
for Columbia Records, he was far from the first. A few examples that
predate Steinweiss's initial work: Harper-Columbia's "Bubble Books,"
colorfully illustrated albums of 

children's 78s (beginning in 1917), and the Brunswick cast album for
the revival of "Show Boat" (1932) with Paul Robeson. Other illustrated
albums were manufactured by Decca, Musicraft, and Victor, all before
1940. These should not, however, diminish Steinweiss's creative genius
in taking record album design to a new level of sophistication.
Sometimes biographers get overzealous in their claims... "for the
record."

Cary Ginell
Thousand Oaks, CA
                           
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