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

[David Lennick]

Remind me again please..I've been to the storage units but I was looking for 
other stuff and forgot to look at opera sets.

As for label styles, I guess the sets were occasionally sold from available 
stock with whatever labels were in use at any one time. Any of them on blue 
shellac?

dl

On 9/1/2011 5:47 PM, Brad D Clark wrote:
> 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...
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> 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)...
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> DL, when fortune sends money my way, I shall be in contact with you about part 1 of this and part 2 of Aida.
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> Cheers!
>
> Brad