[78-L] Special Christmas Greetings Gennett Records
Michael Biel
mbiel at mbiel.com
Sun Jan 31 10:20:35 PST 2010
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! These scans will be a wonderful addition to my
anti-Steinweiss presentation at ARSC in New Orleans in May. It further
puts to rest the asinine notion that prior to him, records were marketed
in plain brown wrappers.
Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Special Christmas Greetings Gennett Records
From: Glenn Longwell <glongwell at snet.net>
Date: Sun, January 31, 2010 12:39 pm
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I just came into possession of two of these records, both William
Jennings Bryan records, 5225 & 5226. Since there was a comment by
someone on the thread that they thought they were in special sleeves I
thought I'd point you to the pictures I've posted.
http://www.majesticrecord.com/labelsg.htm
They came in gatefold sleeves with "Christmas Greetings" on the front
and the words to the prayer on the inside front.
Glenn
--- On Thu, 12/10/09, bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
wrote:
From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net <bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Special Christmas Greetings Gennett Records
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Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:48 AM
Ok I found it from an old Newsclipping on line: The blurb mentions those
1923 Christmas Greetings were
from:
Bebe Daniel, William Jenning Bryan, Wilbur Nesbit, Kin Hubbard, Sid
Smith(Andy Gump)
Meredith Nicholson, Shirley Mason, and Mitzie Harjos.
GREAT GENNETT SELLER.
The Gennett Christmas Greeting records were
among the biggest sellers in records in the week be-
fore Christmas . The "Ten Gifts That Actually Speak
Your Christmas Greetings " as the advertising so
aptly announced, offered a choice that was considered
a boon by a vast number of holiday shoppers. In
them the holiday spirit was voiced by famous authors,
humorists and stage folk. The ten greeting records
included numbers by Bebe Daniels, William Jen-
nings Bryan, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Kin Hubbard, Sid
Smith (Andy Gump), Meredith Nicholson, Shirley
Mason and Mitzi Hajos
GREAT GENNETT SELLER.
The Gennett Christmas Greeting records were
among the biggest sellers in records in the week be-
fore Christmas . The "Ten Gifts That Actually Speak
Your Christmas Greetings " as the advertising so
aptly announced, offered a choice that was considered
a boon by a vast number of holiday shoppers. In
them the holiday spirit was voiced by famous authors,
humorists and stage folk. The ten greeting records
included numbers by Bebe Daniels, William Jen-
nings Bryan, Wilbur D. Nesbit, Kin Hubbard, Sid
Smith (Andy Gump), Meredith Nicholson, Shirley
Mason and Mitzi Hajos
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From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net
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Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:40:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Special Christmas Greetings Gennett Records
How many different ones were issued, and is there a list of the artists
somewhere ?
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From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 12:46:55 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Special Christmas Greetings Gennett Records
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ventresco" <craigventresco at gmail.com>
>I THINK that they were given away to dealers and good customers, but this
>is
> just a guess. I've never seen one that has a for sale price on the
> label..I'll see what I can find out.
>
Also, IIRC there was a special sleeve used for the discs...?!
Steven C. Barr
(I have at least two of the records...different artists...)
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