[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 34, Issue 35

[David Lennick]

The 1949 Columbia catalog says its cutoff date is June 1948 for popular 
releases and July for classical, and it lists the 78 issues of For You Alone, 
Campus Favorites and Happy Anniversary. But "Many Moons" .. nope, so JL 8002 
might still qualify for a half side.

Incidentally, mention was made of how lousy most early lps sound on today's 
equipment. I've had a number of white label test pressings, so early that the 
catalog numbers on the labels were the 78 equivalents, and they've all sounded 
excellent..obviously 3-stage yielded up better pressings than 5-stage.

dl

On 7/26/2011 9:39 AM, David Lewis wrote:
>
> Nigel wrote:
>
> According to William Brown's Columbia book this set was actually recorded
> over TWO days
> August 20&  21 1947 (late evening to very early morning??) and first issued
> on November 10 1947
> as 78rpm set C.153
>>>>
> Very well, I admit defeat, though I would've liked it to have been Buddy.
>
> Any word as to when the 78 album sets to C-150 "Campus Favorites" by Kay Kyser and C-160 "Happy Anniversary" by Ray Noble were released? If both of those appeared as 78 sets before the tombstone issues than that would disqualify the whole initial program of pop releases, with the caveat that at least CL-6004 was at least partly new to consumers.
>
> Also I wonder which of the classical releases was new at the initial launch, if any, though you figure as there were 70 of them at least
> one would have made its first bow as an LP.
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com