[78-L] another Columbia album question

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Jul 26 16:30:04 PDT 2011


Canadian Columbia was oddly selective. We never got the Levant version except 
on LP.

And the Whiteman-Bargy set was Modern Music Album Set 3 through the mid 30s, 
then M280. Both albums numbered the discs 7315/7M (confirmed in the 1934 catalog).

dl

On 7/26/2011 7:14 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> The original issue was on potato head labels, and I see no indication of
> it being in a set.  My copy is on Royal Blue pressings with little
> stickers changing the catalog numbers.  When I got it there was a
> trashed blue album with the remnants of a silver spine sticker.  I
> suppose it came in one of those stickered tombstone albums.  It was then
> set M-280.and probably was given a generic cover in the CBS days.  It
> disappeared in the U.S. between 1942 an 1944 when the Levant version was
> issued on MM 512 which had a Steinweiss cover.  I'm surprised to see
> that the Whiteman was still in the Canadian catalog in 49-50.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> On 7/26/2011 6:31 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> It was still in print in Canada through the 40s, with blue Masterworks labels.
>> No special artwork. In fact it was still in the 1949-50 catalogue but I've
>> never seen a really late Canadian pressing.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 7/26/2011 6:12 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>>> Was the 1928 Whiteman Concerto in F issued in an album when it was new, and if so, what kind of artwork might the cover have carried?
>>>
>>> Was it reissued in the CBS era and if so what kind of album art information do we know about it?
>>>
>>> Rodger
>>>


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