[78-L] Zonophone on CD - Jack Kerouac

[David Lennick]

Dot DLP 3154..apparently 130 copies got out.
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/beat-vinyl/

dl

On 3/23/2012 4:56 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>
> probably not of great interest, except for the continuance of the name...and this CD:
>
>   "POETRY FOR THE BEAT GENERATION" - Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen (Produced by Bob Thiele, recorded prob. March 1958
> intended for DOT Records release, but withdrawn by Randy Wood the president of Dot.  Subsequently issued June 1959, HANOVER HML
> 5000.
>
> Some copies of the DOT album were sent to reviewers etc.
> Does anyone have the DOT release number?  Were the Dot pressings used by Hanover, or were there only small run of review copies??
>
> I noticed this CD it is on the EMI ZONOPHONE label.
>
> from the website  www.zonophone.net  :
> "Zonophone was a record label founded in 1899 in Camden, New Jersey by Frank Seaman. The Zonophone name was not that of the
> company, but was applied to the records and machines sold by Seaman from 1899-1900 to 1903.
>   The name was subsequently acquired by Columbia Records and Victor Talking Machine Company.
>   In 2006, EMI relaunched the label with unearthed or rediscovered music from artists such as The Cramps, The Move, T. Rex, Joe
> Cocker, Lee Hazlewood, Procol Harum, The Flying Lizards, Glen Campbell and many more."
>
> Best wishes, Thomas.
>