[78-L] Casper Reardon on 24000

[Michael Biel]

  Looking thru the supplements of the 1933 era, I did not see any notice 
of an album.  These are listed in the 1934 and 36 catalog, numbered as 
No 1 thru No 6 with no album indication like they do for individual 
discs that are compiled into albums.  It is interesting to find out that 
there had been leaflets for the individual records.  There instead would 
have been a booklet for the set if there had been an album set.  Victor 
had a long history of educational sets that were available only as 
individual discs, such as the instruments of the orchestra sets.  Only 
the third set in the 1950s was issued in an album.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 8/17/2010 12:12 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> There were other instruction discs, such as Ukulele Lessons with May Singhi Breen, Peter de Rose and Vaughn de Leath. As for Reardon, I'm on the lookout for his records as well. I have one incomplete aircheck where he speaks briefly, in dialogue with Ed Gardner. No date on disc, but it's probably from "This is New York", 1939 (Duffy's Tavern didn't come on the air as a regular series till 8 days before Reardon's death).
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> dl
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>> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:05:16 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Casper Reardon on 24000
>>
>> Thanks for the info, Jack. I'm figuring these records don't show off
>> Reardon's musicianship to very much advantage, but given that he made so
>> few records anyway I'd sure like to find a set of them...if they have the
>> diagrams that would be an entertaining bonus!
>>
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jack Raymond"<jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu>
>> To: "78-L List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:21 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Casper Reardon on 24000
>>
>>
>>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>>> While looking at the 24000 Victors on Ty's list, I happened to
>>>> notice #24288 through #24293, which appear to be three instructional
>>>> records about tap dancing (by Edna Holt) followed by three piano
>>>> accomp. records for tap dancing...these by Casper Reardon, best-known
>>>> as a jazz harpist.
>>>>
>>>> Was this a six-record album set of some kind? I'd appreciate any
>>>> details about this, or of any other "odd" Casper Reardon records.
>>> I don't know whether or not it was an album set, but I've got two of the
>>> records, one of which still has the accompanying leaflet with diagrams
>>> and extensive instructions. On each record, one side has a tap dance
>>> routine and the other has Casper Reardon playing a piano accompaniment
>>> for the routine. The two routines that I have are "Beginner's Waltz
>>> Clog" and "Beginner's Soft Shoe." The booklet brags "This method of
>>> instruction endorsed by Earl Carroll," and "Edna Holdt is prominently
>>> credited as "formerly with Earl Carroll."
>>>
>>> -- Jack Raymond