[78-L] No -- this is the world's rarest record

[David Lennick]

One recording of which there MIGHT be only one known copy extant is a set of 4 shellac 78s of "Amelia Al Ballo" in its broadcast premiere, recorded off the CBS net in 1937. The labels are actual photographs of the original lacquer disc labels and the set was apparently made for the head of the Curtis Institute. (And it's now on CD.)

 

dl


 
> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:32:41 -0700
> From: burnhamd at rogers.com
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] No -- this is the world's rarest record
> 
> There has to be so many recordings of which there is only one copy. I have a 
> recording of Leopold Stokowski conducting the Toronto Symphony - I'm pretty sure 
> it's the only copy. I also have a digital Dizzy Gilespie recording which I know 
> is the only copy because I recorded it myself and it was never copied or 
> broadcast. And I'm sure any collector on this list has similar rareties. One 
> rhetorical question I often ponder is how many copies of various records are 
> still extant in the world. Take a very popular set like the Horowitz - 
> Toscanini Tchaikovsky first Piano Concerto; are there still thousands of 
> copies, tens of thousands of copies or millions of copies? Of course we'll 
> never know, but I look at records of which I've never seen another copy except 
> the one I have and wonder how many are still out there.
> 
> db
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