[78-L] Victor G series [fwd]

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Mar 8 08:00:55 PST 2012


75 cents a disc (50 cents for ten-inch). Higher in Canada and a small charge 
for the album.

dl

On 3/8/2012 10:52 AM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> "Bargain" reissues of early Masterpiece sets:  the Tchaikowsky was M25, the Brahms M31.
>
> Need someone with Victor catalogues to tell prices of these black label issues vs. the
> original reds.
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/8/12, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com<neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com<neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Victor G series
> To: "78-l"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012, 3:31 PM
>
> Sorting thru the records, populating the new shelving. I've discovered
> that I own a couple sets of Victor G series 78s, which I don't recall
> even seeing before....that ever happen to anybody?
>
> G4 is Tchaikovsky Fifth, Stock/CSO.
>
> G7 is Brahms Fourth, LSO, Abendroth.
>
> The interesting thing to me is that even tho this is squarely classical
> rep, not even light classical,  it is released on black label records. I
> suppose I am suffering from the delusion that Victor released classical
> only on red seal, but that clearly is not the case.
>
> So my question is this, what was the intended market for G series
> records and what else was released therein?



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