[78-L] Victor Herbert

[David Lennick]

C-33 is listed in my 1941 Victor catalog as "Herbert's Melodies, discs 
12589/93, with Shilkret and the Victor Light Opera Company, Victor Salon Group 
and Victor Concert Orchestra. This is the album I mentioned the other day in 
another context, with the soloists being Jan Peerce, Ann Jamison and Tom 
(Thomas L.) Thomas..you have to go through flaming hoops to find their names 
connected with this album. It may have derived from an NBC broadcast like The 
Magic Key, but I'm not aware of that being the case..the Gershwin Memorial 
Album Victor put out a year or so earlier was taken from a broadcast, so it did 
happen. Peerce's 3 sides were recorded January 29, 1939, per Emil Pinta's 
discography.

As Dave Burnham notes, C-1 was an earlier Herbert collection, also titled 
Herbert's Melodies, and containing many of the same pieces and medleys. 
Obviously in need of a newer recording by 1939. And C-11 (9903/7) was a second 
volume of Victor Herbert music, recorded in the late 20s and still in print in 
the early 40s.

dl

On 2/13/2011 7:01 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> When I was a boy, my father gave me some 78s that one of this customers was
> going to throw out. In an album of Victor Herbert selections, which was
> supposedly from an NBC broadcast, there were 78s from C1, and only one from
> the broadcast. If memory serves, this broadcast was ca. 1938.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone? Does anyone have this album and can tell me
> its number and who was on it?
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> I gave up years ago trying to figure out the Victor Herbert albums.  The
>> first
>> album in the "C" series, C1 is "Victor Herbert Melodies", I have C33 titled
>> "Victor Herbert Melodies", I have another album marked C33 entitled
>> "Herbert,
>> The Music of Volume II", Yet another numbered C11, "Victor Herbert, the
>> Music of
>> Volume II".
>>
>> He was a popular guy!
>>
>> db