[78-L] The First Lp Is Released..okay, count the howlers

[Randy Watts]

Billboard's list of Columbia's "initial LP catalog" contains 101 albums.

Randy

--- On Fri, 6/25/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> My comments haven't been approved, but there haven't been
> any updates since Tuesday. That story is even more full of
> holes than I realized, especially the one about Wallerstein
> cancelling an early LP program at Columbia..he was still at
> Victor in 1933 and for several years to come.
> 
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> We've mentioned this before, but how many titles did
> Columbia have at the launch? I know they didn't have all the
> jackets ready.
> 
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> 
> dl
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> > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:38:48 -0700
> > From: rew1014 at yahoo.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] The First Lp Is Released..okay,
> count the howlers
> > 
> > I'll give him points for showing the label of one of
> the Masterworks releases that came out that day. Usually
> these "first LP" articles tell you it was Frank Sinatra's
> THE VOICE (CL-6001) and leave it at that, ignoring the other
> Columbia LPs issued simultaneously.
> > 
> > Randy 
> > 
> > --- On Wed, 6/23/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've already sent in my comments.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > http://gizmodo.com/5569231/june-21-1948-the-first-lp-is-released
> > > 
> > > 
> > > dl