[78-L] X label

[David Lennick]

On 5/10/2011 3:06 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Have we ever compiled a list of X lp reissues? I've just been looking at
>> the>  High Fidelity Record Review Index for 1956 and a number of them
>> appear here:
>>
>> LVA 1000 YOUNG BING CROSBY
>> LVA 1001 FRED ASTAIRE
>> LVA 1002 RUSS COLUMBO: LOVE SONGS
>> LVA 1003 HAROLD ARLEN&  COLE PORTER: COMPOSERS AT PLAY
>> LVA 1004 ETHEL MERMAN&  GERTRUDE NIESEN: ON STAGE
>> LVA 1005 FRANK CRUMIT: A GAY CABALLERO
>> LVA 1006 HELEN MORGAN&  FANNIE BRICE: TORCH SONGS
>> LVA 1007 GENE AUSTIN" ALL TIME FAVORITES
>> LVA 1008 (not listed..Happiness Boys??)
>> LVA 1009 ETHEL WATERS
>>
> Did some/any of these reappear in Victor's LPV- "Vintage" series?
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
No, but some may have been renumbered as VIK issues. The LPVs were all 8 tracks 
a side, but the Xs were stingy. And only one side of Twisting the Dials on the 
Happiness Boys lp (which was indeed LVA 1008).

dl