[78-L] The COL MW La Boheme & dumb questions

[Brad D Clark]

I may have asked this before, but Old-timer's Ailment may have clouded my feeble memory... where is a GOOD place to share audio files of recently encoded material?  I *could* put some up on my site, but it's a PITA loading them through their web-loader. Just want to share results & such with interested parties...

Also,on this La Boheme I recently acquired... Having gone through 4 discs, each label is a different style! could this have been done as-sold, or was this set perhaps pieced together by a previous collector-acquirer-hoarder? The discs are in too good condition to be 'hoarded material'... a couple of the sides show evidence of a cleaning (done fairly well, very little residue)...

The 3 labels are all blue Columbia styles, some with all-caps block print and "MASTER WORKS", some with earlier style Columbia, different fonts on the title/performer info, some with "Elecrtical Process", most without. Perhaps a hodgepodge because of short supply, or were they doing the American-Motors style of labels, grabbing what was available fromlabel stock when the set was pressed?

And the performance is, aside from being somewhat 1930-over-the-top-ish, not too bad at all. The romantic heroine's laughing in Act 3 sounds like she has been... consuming Happy Dust... but it's a fair La Boheme, from what I have heard so far.

DL, when fortune sends money my way, I shall be in contact with you about part 1 of this and part 2 of Aida. 

Cheers!

Brad