[78-L] Trying to Track Down Record Numbers...

[Dan Van Landingham]

I had a few of those "Living Language" sets:one in Russian,Spanish and 
Japanese.They sold for around $10 new.I found mine either at the now defunct Pay 
Less Drugs in North Bend,Oregon and a couple of
them at thrift stores.They were alright they were better than the ALM series 
that was used at my allma
mater,North Bend High School in North Bend,Oregon.That was back in 1969.I still 
have one-in Russia-
n-I gave $5.00 for several years ago.The ones I had in Spanish and Japanese are 
long gone.I use a coup-
le of CD-ROM(31 and 35 different languages)sets.I gave around $10 for those.I 
haven't seen the "Living
Language" sets in at least 30 years.




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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Mon, November 1, 2010 7:45:06 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Trying to Track Down Record Numbers...

Living Language was the name to a widely sold series of 10-inch LP sets in the 
sixties, marketed through local newspapers. These things turn up everywhere, 
usually with only the first disc played. No connection with Columbia sets that 
I'm aware of. The Columbia 78 sets each consisted of 20 discs in two volumes, 
with dictionary and manual..this from the 1949 catalog. No individual disc 
numbers given, sorry. (Never heard of these sets before!)

I suppose it's vaguely possible that the same master recordings could have been 
used for the LP sets, but those are all ten-inch discs, 4 to a box, 4 tracks 
per side as I recall. Unless some sides were omitted, the Columbia sets would 
require twelve-inch discs with 5 cuts per side.

dl

On 11/1/2010 10:31 PM, samhopper at mail.com wrote:
>
> I'm trying to track down the 78rpm record numbers for the following U.S. 
>Columbia 78rpm sets
> MM-738 and MM-739
>
>
> They are respectively titled "Living Language Course - French" and "Living 
>Language Course - Spanish" (I believe)
> They may have also been released as 10 inch LPs(?)
>
>
>
>
> Anyone who can help - greatly appreciated. I've exhausted my research sources 
>and have come to a complete blank on these mysterious album sets.
>
>
> Sam
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