[78-L] The Columbia Record Shop 78 Albums ?

[David Lennick]

Hmm. Columbia MM 746 is Morley & Gerhardt's "Night Life on Two Pianos", noted 
in Billboard's June 12/48 issue. Are these albums ten-inch or twelve-inch or 
varied, by the way? I expected twelves till I saw that Tiny Hill Mercury.

dl

On 11/9/2011 12:22 AM, jeffrey smedbron wrote:
> Michael,
> These are full of records, many Columbia’s but different companies as well so I think they were added later. Here is the printed info on the albums. Some of them have a stamped number on the first pocket. Maybe someone will come up with the whole story of what these were all about. Would be an interesting collection if one knew the proper recordings they were originally issued with. Â
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> Jeff S
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> # 17 May 3Â Â  1947 1st sleeve # 672
> # 19 May 17 1947 1st sleeve # 637
> # 20 May 24 1947 1st sleeve # 673
> # 23 Jun 14Â Â  1947Â
> # 25 Jun 28Â Â  1947 1st sleeve # 1464
> # 27 Jul 12Â Â Â  1947 1st sleeve # 746
> # 32 Aug 16Â  1947 1st sleeve # 1533
> # 33 Aug 23Â  1947
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> Sleeve print image:
> http://users.solarus.net/~xcentrik/crs1x.jpg
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> ________________________________
> From: Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 9:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Columbia Record Shop 78 Albums ?
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> From: bradc944 at comcast.net
>>> Given the program number and air-date fields on the 3rd picture, might
>>> these have contained records to be used in a local-origination type of
>>> radio program? Columbia marketing/promotion sends out a group of records
>>> and a script for a local air personality to read (or at least use as a
>>> guide for between-record patter)? ...just some random thoughts here... Brad
>
> I came up with one of these -- also empty -- during the last year and
> posted a question here about it -- unanswered, of course.  I think I
> finally saw something about the series in the back of one of the
> Columbia annual catalogs, but I also think that the albums contained
> individual unrelated records and a continuity script for your local
> station announcer.  This would be similar to the RCA Victor series Music
> You Want, and I do have a loose leaf book of scripts for these along
> with the theme song disc.
>
> Jeff, since you have a bunch of them, it might be helpful to post the
> full list of program numbers and dates.Â
>
> This cover format is one of the several Steinweiss era generic tombstone
> covers replacing the plain gray covers and the original tombstone cover
> -- the Royal Blue era cover with the arch-top gray stickers which REALLY
> look like a tombstone.  The Lp cover that we have long called the
> tombstone seems to be the first "public" use of that term which had been
> used inside the company since the 30s.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jeffrey smedbron<bottomlessattic at yahoo.com>
>>> I recently found some 78 storage albums printed with “The Columbia Record Shop”
>>> in gold lettering on the spine. Nothing comes up at all about these or what
>>> this refers to on a web search. There are program numbers and dates on the
>>> front. What was the Columbia Record Shop ?
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> http://users.solarus.net/~xcentrik/cbs1.jpg
> http://users.solarus.net/~xcentrik/cbs2.jpg
> http://users.solarus.net/~xcentrik/cbs3.jpg
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