[78-L] Victor S- series (Was: 5 Prayers of Moses)

[Michael Biel]

Randy Watts wrote:
> It's probably RCA Victor set S-60, "Prayers of Moses," by Moshe Koussevitzky.
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THANK YOU!!!!!!  Where did you find this listing?  Do you have it or do 
you have it listed in a catalog or discography?  I have been unable to 
find a listing for it other than an Israeli CD which seems to be sourced 
from three different recordings from the sound quality and 
instrumentation on the sample clips. 

Is there a listing of the S series albums?  All I see is the Rosenblatt 
S-48 in the 1948 catalog, and I happen to have that album.  I also 
somewhere have an album by Stephen Wise with broken discs, and I suppose 
it also is in the S series.  And then I also have an empty album marked 
"Victor Library of Recorded Music" which looks to be of a type Victor 
provided for a uniform set of albums shown in a small shelving unit in 
the July 1937 Victor monthly supplement, and a similar shelving unit in 
a G.Schirmer brochure for a post-war September.  I thought these albums 
were unmarked, but the one I have is numbered S-38. 

Did these albums of uniform design have anything to do with the Carnegie 
Foundation library collection?

Is there a listing of the S- series?  The 48 catalog notes these as 
International. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mvbiel.com
> --- On Fri, 3/5/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
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>> Does anybody have any identification
>> for a 12-inch album set with the 
>> possible title "5 Prayers of Moses"?  I am not sure if
>> the first place 
>> is a 5 or 4 or even a letter, or if it is even part of the
>> title.  I do 
>> not know if it is music or spoken word.  I do not know
>> the label, but 
>> there might be a catalog number of either 560 or S60. 
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>> It is a spine label of a wrapped album set seen in a
>> photograph from 
>> around 1950 of Rosemary Clooney in the Commodore Record
>> Shop.  She is 
>> holding a copy of the 78 set of Billie Holiday on
>> Commodore, and some of 
>> the albums on display are 10-inch Commodore LPs.  The
>> bottom shelf has 
>> 12-inch 78 albums and I can identify each one (and I have
>> most of them!) 
>> but this one album is still in the factory paper wrapper.
>> The picture is 
>> on the copyright page of the book about album covers "in
>> the groove" by 
>> Eric Kohler. 
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>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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