[78-L] Karl Krueger - Music in America

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 23 19:34:05 PST 2011


I've seen a couple of NEW lps, both ten-inch. And I have here in my hand MUSIC 
IN AMERICA MIA 101, which I asked about here a few months back. I think a 
Billboard article was cited to indicate that it was released in the late 50s. 
Could there have been two incarnations of MIA?

dl

On 12/23/2011 10:29 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>   Of the few LP's I've seen most are STEREO, and issued in the 70's.
> In online sources (including WIKI..) there seems to be a gap between
> leaving the Detroit Symphony, and establishing MIA.
>   There was another label "NEW RECORDS" probably started sometime in the 1950's, which issued 10" LP's as
> well as 12" all MONO - some were conducted by Krueger, but I do not know if he was a founder.  NEW Records issued
> a great many recordings in many series.  I'd be interested in a complete listing of their output.  Among the oddities
> was an album with Jean Ritchie (the Kentucky born folk singer), and Tony Kraber (also did a Keynote 78rpm album).
>    Best wishes, Thomas.
>
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> I think the CBC has the complete run of MIA lps. I remember seeing them years
> ago. It was impossible to tell when they were issued and whether these were new
> pressings or reissues, and since they were all monaural I thought they were
> older than the 60s.
>
> dl
>
> On 12/23/2011 8:39 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>>
>>
>> Krueger made a number of recordings with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on RCA in the 1940's.
>>
>> In the 1960's he formed a label to record music of American composers.
>>
>> IS there a complete listing of the (Lp) recordings issued by Karl Krueger's
>> THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL HERITAGE - Music In America label?
>>
>> A number of these recordings have been reissued by the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS in their
>> OUR MUSICAL PAST series of CD's
>> Are there any releases in this (OMP) series above 107 ???
>>
>> Additionally, BRIDGE RECORDS issued a 3-CD box, and 3 single CD's of KRUEGER's recordings.
>> Were these reissues of the Library of Congress series, or additions to it?
>>
>>
>> THANKS!
>> Happy Hanukah/Christmas/New Year!  Thomas.
>>
>>


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