[78-L] Further questions on RCA/Bluebird 31-0000 series

[David Lennick]

31-0001/4 were Al Goodman doing a box set of SOUTH PACIFIC (using the 
understudies) and I think 31-0005/8 made up another box set of Irving Berlin's 
MISS LIBERTY. Vinyl pressings, nicely done, marketed to the great unwashed. 
Columbia also had a budget line, Harmony, which was distributed by Eli 
Oberstein's company and was doing too well..it had a couple of hits so they 
snagged it back and put the artists like Rosemary Clooney on the full price 
label. I'm not sure what Canada did with either of these series..certainly they 
didn't give Bluebird the deluxe treatment here.

dl

On 1/16/2012 1:49 AM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> Since I asked recently about my two record album (Ilene Woods, "Walt
> Disney's Cinderella"), from the short lived, RCA/Bluebird 31-0000 series,
> I've found little information about the series. Only that it was short
> lived, and few discs. However, it seemingly made it to 31-0014, because I
> have 0013&  0014. What other releases were released on the series. Are they
> considered from the RCA, or the Bluebird catalog?
>
> Googling leads to little, less, and nada? Were these issued as code
> recordings for the Allies, or what?
>
> Please, can anyone add other recordings to the 31-0000 series? Perhaps we
> can collectively create the missing discography.
>
>