[78-L] Album Images Needed (2.1) Decca w. titles

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> * 16 Ten Famous Rumbas Vol 1  Henry King
> 	--has a nice full color cover of a dancing girl
>   

That's good, because I was planning on commenting about #12 Ten Famous 
Tangos by Pancho & Orch that has a lettering cover but a real sezy photo 
on the booklet that they should have put on the cover.  They must have 
learned their lesson.
> * 42 Gypsy Memories   Nicholas Matthey
> 	--has only white lettering on black, left edge of album
>   

This is one of the styles that they used on a whole series of covers, 
but always in different colors.  I'm beginning now to think of showing 
the Deccas in groupings of the different styles rather than purely 
numerical.  Over on ARSC-List Smolian asked why show all the covers, 
saying that showing just the first one or two covers would make my 
point.  He was one of the consultants on the $500 Steinweiss book 
confirming the dates of issues of his covers.  Apparently he didn't tell 
them (or they didn't listen) that there were years of display covers 
before Steinweiss's first cover.
> I have a few of the early numbers, but on the original Parlophone pressings.
>
> dl
>   

But it's not the records I need!  Ironically yesterday I was reading an 
article in a late-30s American Music Liver by a collector who spent the 
Summer in London and reported on his record shopping there.  He 
specifically said the Parlophones were gritty and compared them to 
American Deccas.  What was funny -- and sad -- was that a couple of days 
before leaving for the U.S. he read an article in the AML that had 
arrived in London about American customs agents confiscating records 
that had labels with trademarks used in the US, so he spent his last 
night in London scratching the trademarks off the records!  And when he 
arrived in NY the customs inspector didn't care about the records.  .He 
also commented that the price of classical records in England was LESS 
than in the U.S! 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> Michael Biel wrote:
>   
>> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>>     
>>> I can supply 118.
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Great!  Thanks.  Everyone, remember that the list doesn't allow 
>> graphics, so they have to be sent directly off list.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>     
>>> --- On Thu, 3/11/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 118 A Prog of Standard Guitar Selections  Oyanguran
>>>       
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