[78-L] Albums

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Oct 9 21:10:42 PDT 2010


For what it's worth, Decca's first Souvenir Album seems to be Deanna Durbin 
(A-35). "Souvenir Album No. 1" according to the catalog (there were at least 3 
more)..I don't know whether it was titled #1 at the time or once there was a #2.

On 10/9/2010 7:56 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 10/9/2010 7:04 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>
>> Decca had an early 10-inch LP series called "Souvenir Album" featuring recordings by Red Foley, the Mills Brothers, and others.
>>
> This was a continuation of the same type of series on 78s..Marlene Dietrich,
> Grace Moore, Judy Garland etc. So the term was well established and transferred
> to LP.



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