[78-L] Today's finds (marginally 78-related)

[David Lennick]

The ET box set with Michael Jackson, excellent condition and the poster near 
mint. Cost me a quarter. Sorry, no 78 content.

A Percy Faith album with two major howlers in the liner notes..that he "joined 
the CBS as staff arranger and conductor in 1934" and elsewhere that "in 1934 
the Canadian Broadcasting System hired him as staff arranger and conductor". 
All this occurred in Canada, of course, but trust that nobody at Columbia 
Records would know of the CBC or that in 1934, it was still called the Canadian 
Radio Broadcasting Commission..which was what Percy worked for (that and peanuts).

The children's story "The Little Ballerina", a ten-inch LP on RCA that is 
impossible to find in playable condition and with the booklet. Of more interest 
for the ballet music conducted by Stokowski on the B side, but here it was, 
booklet included..and the booklet shows the 45 RPM number (WRY 8000), as if 
they didn't even bother printing a separate version for the LP even though this 
was 1953. And talk about plugging your product..one of the illustrations shows 
the kid with an RCA 45 player and surrounded by red, yellow and black 45s. And 
of course the text has her putting a record on her victrola.

dl