[78-L] Album Images Needed (1) Columbia, G.Schirmer
Michael Biel
mbiel at mbiel.com
Wed Mar 10 11:23:16 PST 2010
David Lennick wrote:
> I have M-325 with a picture cover, Merchant of Venice and 12th Night with cloth
> covers (only later covers for JC and Macbeth). I am pretty sure that the
> autographed Air Raid had blue labels and a green cover, but yes I do have one
> disc with a gold label, 69353D. The Limited Edition was C-5 copy 147 and the
> discs were 69353/6D. The February 1940 catalog lists C-4, 50382/5, price $4.00.
> It also lists the C- albums 1-10 but shows nothing for C-5!
>
That's the catalog I also have in hard copy, but there are variations in
the catalogs I have on photos from the NYPL microfilms. The Sept 1939
supplement to the December 1937 catalog shows the 50xxx numbers with
only a "Special Album" designation. A loose-leaf numerical sheet from
9-15-40 shows only the 69xxx number as C-5, no C-4 shown. There is a
catalog from sometime in 1939 which clearly shows that C-5 is the
"Limited Authographed (sic.) Ed." and that C-4 is the standard edition.
Both sets of disc numbers are shown on the next line but it is confusing
as to which group they mean as the "Sp Ed". There is another catalog
from after the August 40 price cut which only shows C-5 with the 69xxx
numbers but no mention of it being special, and no C-4.
So it does seem that it is consistant that C-4 has the 50xxx discs and
C-5 has the 69xxx discs and is cited by one catalog as being the
Authographed edition. What is inconsistent is which sets are in the
catalogs.
Sept 39 Supplement to Dec 37 Catalog -- "Special Album", no set #, 50xxx
discs $4.00
1939 Catalog -- C-4 regular $4.00, C-5 "Limited Authographed (sic) Ed"
no price,
both 50xxx & 69xxx discs shown "Sp.Ed. between them
Feb 1940 Catalog -- C-4 only, 50xxx discs $4.00
9-15-40 Numerical sheet -- C-5 only, 69xxx discs $4.25
post Aug 40 catalog -- C-5 only, 69xxx discs $4.25
Since you have a set with mixed discs -- unless you mixed 'em up -- and
the set numbers do not appear on the labels or spines that I have seen,
it could be that they had left-over gold label 69xxx discs and dumped
them into regular albums. Your set is C-4/5 :-)
Get me the gold label, the M-325 picture cover, and Merchant cloth
cover. Which 12th do you have -- Twelfth with the correct label pic or
12th with the Merchant label pic? I have a photo of both.
> If you're going to ask for Musicraft, ask before I start packing (Leadbelly,
> Josh White, The Revuers).
>
> dl
>
>
I have the Revuers -- a photo of them pasted on a blue cover or printed
with a blue border (can't tell in the photo) -- and two variant covers
of Lead Belly Sinful Songs. One with his photo in reddish brown on the
left and the titling on a yellow background on the right, and another
with a sepia photo of cotton pickers which is the same photo used on the
Hampton Institute Quartet album. I don't have the Josh White
Musicrtaft, have a bunch on other labels. So get me it.
Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> Michael Biel wrote:
>
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>> I have the 2 Frimls. 88sOn78s ought to be able to come up with the Bauer (that
>>> one always goes for big bucks so I've never owned it except on LP reissue).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> joe salerno wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have Bauer in the Brahms f minor Sonata but not the
>>> "at the piano" album. Will the Sonata do?
>>>
>> YES! What set number is it? 5? My info comes from their ads in American Music Lover, and photo covers of #1 and #2 are shown (with #3 listed)in Dec 1939 which is pre-Steinweiss. From R&H's collection I only have images of Schirmer 4, 6, 8, and 9. Except for the Suesse/Rearden # 8, the others at R&H (#4 Carpenter String Quar, #6 Zimbalist String Quar, and #9 Faure Piano Quin) are plain lettered covers that I wonder if they are later copies of what might have originally been photo covers like I know 1, 2, 3, and 8 were. (I also have my own copy of the Suesse which she autographed for me.) #7 is Hungarian Gypsy Airs and Dances, and I can use photos of it but it is advertised with the Suesse in May 1940 which is post-Steinweiss. But those first 3 illustrated albums were issued before C-11 was even recorded.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I HAD the autographed Air Raid but traded it..I might have copied the autograph
>>> page but will have to look.
>>>
>>>
>> Do you remember if the cover was different? Is the autographed "page" a
>> page or the inside cover? I read somewhere that it might have had a
>> slipcase. What bugs me is that someone scribbled all over the first
>> pocket of one of the two copies at R&H that it is an "variant version"
>> but both copies are un-autographed and I see no difference in the
>> discs. Both had the same light green cover and silver lettered spine my
>> copy has. But the scribbling mentions disc numbers 69353-D thru
>> S69356-D but these discs are 50382-D thru S50385! Did the
>> autographed set have gold labels (like I think you mentioned before) but
>> HIGHER numbers? Didn't you say you still had one of the gold label discs?
>>
>>> Things are going to start getting packed away pretty quickly so let me know if
>>> you think of other imminent needs, like Richard II and Julius Caesar (Evans &
>>> Welles, respectively) photo covers.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>>
>> I have both of the Evans Sakespeare photo cover albums but need both
>> Welles JC. I only have M-325 in a 40s generic cover--which one do you
>> have with a photo, C-10 or M-325? I need C-10 in any form, and I see I
>> also need photos of the original cloth cover of C-6 Merchant of
>> Venice. I have photos of two versions of C-7 Twelfth Night in the
>> original red cloth covers (one mistakenly shows the illustration of the
>> Merchant label and prints the title as "12th Night"!) I should have
>> looked at my photos before posting last night.
>>
>>
>> A Decca list will follow in a little bit. Anybody have any of the real
>> colorful Columbia late-20s sleeves. KURT -- If you are reading, I know
>> you have one handing on your studio wall because we see it over Joe
>> Salerno's shoulder in Leah's video.
>>
>> Mike biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Pardon the cross-posting. I'm doing the image assembly for my ARSC
>>>> presentation of pre-April 1940 Album covers & sleeves, and am now
>>>> putting out calls for the remaining images needed. I have been
>>>> amazingly successful in most of what I need, but there are some
>>>> tantalizing rare items that have escaped me but might be residing in
>>>> your collection or archive. I would need a head-on picture of the
>>>> cover, but could also use any inside cover printings, booklet cover, and
>>>> a label shot that might help establish vintage of the edition at hand.
>>>> Here's the first installment
>>>>
>>>> American Columbia
>>>> C-1 Tango Album Vol 1 (342-M - 347-M) Mantovani, etc
>>>> C-2 Tango Album Vol 2 (373-M - 378-M) Misc
>>>> C-3 Rumba and Conga Album (351-M - 356-M) Lecuona Cuban Boys, etc.
>>>> C-9 European Dance Album (310-M - 315-M) Scott Wood and 6 Swingers,
>>>> Mantovani, etc.
>>>> C-4 or C-5 (catalogs differ!!) Limited Autographed edition of MacLeish's
>>>> Air Raid
>>>> Multi-color lithographed sleeves from late 20s -- several different
>>>> designs --
>>>> especially need Ted Lewis on Columbia and Seger Ellis on Okeh
>>>>
>>>> G. Schirmer
>>>> Album 1 Harold Bauer at the Piano
>>>> Album 2 Rudolf Friml In Person (Highlights from Friml Operettas)
>>>> Album 3 (Rudolf Friml In Person (?)) Moods & Fancies
>>>>
>>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>>> _____________________________
>>>>
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