[78-L] Joe Biviano

[David Lennick]

Actually, it's amazing how many of these I have..including "Lighter Brahms" and 
"Lighter Dvorak" (or whatever the titles are) which I just got the other week. 
The Mulcays turned up a couple of times last year, I have two copies of "Tick 
Tock Tale" (music by an important American composer, Paul Creston, and I think 
Mae Questel is on it), the Pauline Alpert set seems to turn up fairly 
frequently, and there's an anonymous set of Gilbert & Sullivan gems which came 
from Obie (previously on Masterpiece..I should compare these some day and find 
out if they were swiped from Thesaurus Transcriptions, which were conducted by 
Harold Sanford and which grew out of very early television productions in 1939).

And there's Raymond Scott on Sonora, with Columbia matrices. Very curious.

dl

Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
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> Sonora albums. During the mid-1940s, Sonora issued a large number of 
> albums covering a wide range of artists and music. In addition to 
> albums of classical and light classical music, it had a large catalog 
> of Hillbilly, Western, and what could essentially be called “folk.” The 
> broad mix of artists in its four-record Series E sets included: Joe 
> Biviano, Fred Kirby of WBT’s Briarhoppers, Ed Durlacher—The Tophands, 
> The Moore Sisters, Carolina Playboys; Kenneth Spencer, Paul Robeson’s 
> sometime understudy doing “American Spirituals” (four-record Albums 
> MS-476 and MS-478), a collection of 11 popular Negro spirituals sung 
> concert style; Stu Davis, Roy Smeck, “Red River” Dave, and The Singing 
> Sentinels. Former “Let’s Dance” radio series leader Murray Kellner [Kel 
> Murrary] did four-record Album MS-489 on the theme of “Singing in the 
> Rain.” Titles include: “Singing in the Rain/Look for the Silver Lining” 
> (Sonora 1158); “Autumn Showers/Rain” (Sonora 1159); “April Showers/Over 
> the Rainbow” (Sonora 1160); and “Call Me Some Rainy Afternoon/Let a 
> Smile Be Your Umbrella” (Sonora 1161). For lovers of the harmonica, 
> there were Jimmy and Mildred Mulcay featured on four-record Album 
> MS-487 Mr. and Mrs. Harmonica (Sonora records 1151 through 1154). For 
> children, there was Lynn Duddy doing Song Stories for Children 
> (four-record Album MS-486), and Jules Werner and Paul Creston on 
> Tick-Tock-Tales (three-record Album MS-485). Album records did not 
> always go in sequence. For example Sonora Album No. MS-477 Hillbilly 
> Tunes with Fred Kirby of WBT’s Briarhoppers had catalog numbers 1113 
> through 1116, while the preceding Album No. MS-476 American Spirituals 
> had catalog numbers 1117 through 1120.
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