[78-L] WERM

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From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <burnhamd at rogers.com>
To: <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:31 AM
Subject: [78-L] WERM


> I believe the first Gilbert and Sullivan album set with a pictorial cover 
> was "The Mikado" on HMV, 1917. Prior to this album sets were issued on HMV 
> without pictorial covers. The earliest of these held single sided discs 
> such as Verdi's 'Ernarni' on HMV from 1903, the label's first complete 
> recording of an opera as opposed to issuing excepts from them was issued 
> in a more plain cover than the 1917 G&S one mentioned above and was made 
> up of 40 single sided discs. I believe the discs were 12" in size and were 
> G&T labelled records (pre-Nipper logo).

Matthew Duncan.
England.

Great to have confirmation of this. I'll look them up in WERM...........

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It has been my experience that WERM doesn't list acoustic recordings.

db
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