[78-L] Glenn Osser Silvertone

[Jeff Sultanof]

I am pretty sure it is Mercury given that Osser was one of their chief
arranger/conductors during that period. I've checked a listing of Mercury
LPs and both titles were issued in that format.

As I've posted here before, there is a Vic Damone LP on Mercury which has an
instrumental version of Time On My Hands, an obvious error. I've been trying
for years to determine who recorded it. When I heard the Silvertone
yesterday, I strongly suspect that it is Osser as well.  It is also over 4
minutes.

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> As far as I know, those Silvertones (which also included a lot of Vic
> Damone,
> some classical stuff by Georges Enesco and vocalists like Lisa della Casa)
> date
> from 1946. Many of them were reissued on Mercury lps in 1950. I don't know
> if
> Mercury did the original recording..it's possible, but physically they
> resemble
> Concert Hall and other New York based labels which also used red vinyl.
>
> dl
>
> On 8/12/2011 12:12 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > I've just heard Silvertone 10 A and B courtesy of YouTube. It is a 12" 78
> of
> > Whispering and Stardust, arranged and conducted by Glenn Osser.
> >
> > I am aware that this was a Sears product, but I wonder whether there is a
> > Mercury equivalent somewhere. I'm almost positive that it was never
> issued
> > on LP.
> >
> > Does anyone have the Greenwood Press Mercury discography handy and can
> give
> > me a recording date? Also, were there any additional sides recorded (I
> have
> > a suspicion that TIme on My Hands was also recorded on the same day).
> >
> > Also, what would the original Silvertone cost at the time?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Jeff Sultanof
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