[78-L] Early Columbia Labels & Sizes

[Michael Biel]

On 4/1/2012 1:39 AM, Sam Hopper wrote:
> Mike,
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>   My complete Columbia Masterworks discography (for M,X,OP,S,J and D series) lists the Confederacy as following.
>   Hope this helps.
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>   BTW, my discography now covers over 780 pages...
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>   Sam

It's been a while since I've visited your discography.  So is THIS now 
the final Masterworks M set?  (First it was the Godfrey Peter and the 
Wolf, then Kismet.)  Was The Union issued on 78s?

On 3/31/2012 11:37 PM, Glenn Longwell wrote:

> I'm out here somewhere.
> The Confederacy set is a 4 record 78rpm set. It's the complete 10 song set with 32 page booklet.  Most of what I've seen of this set is on LP so was fortunate to find this.   I'm not sure if the Union set came out on 78.  I did look for a little while but never found it.  I seem to recall the Union set was done second so perhaps they only did it on LP with poor 78rpm sales of The Confederacy set.  I do have the Union set but its an LP set that I found at Goodwill.
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As I mentioned before, this was a strange decision to not just use the 
same fancy 12-inch album for the 78s as the LPs.  With only four discs, 
eight sides, the side timings must be fairly long with fine grooving.  
What is the average time length?  The probably could have fit it on 
three 78s.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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>   *THE CONFEDERACY *(Richard Bales)
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> General Lee's grand march    *
> All quiet along the Potomac tonight    *
> The bonnie blue flag    *
> Lorena    *
> The yellow rose of Texas    *
> Somebody's darling    *
> We all went down to New Orleans for Bales    *
> General Robert E. Lee's farewell order to the army of northern Virginia, Appomatox Courthouse, Virginia, April 10, 1865    *
> The conquered banner    *
> Dixie's land, with quickstep and interlude, Year of jubilo
> Florence Kopleff (mezzo-soprano); Thomas Pyle (baritone); Rev. Edmund Jennings Lee (narrator); Richard Bales conducting National Gallery Orchestra; Cantata Choir, Lutheran Church of the Reformation
> 8 Sides., (10 inch)  *Set M-1111 *(Also on LP SL 220)
>> Also released as EP microgroove [Set A-1111)
>> Not released in Manual Format
> MM 4818-M - 4821-M
> EP 7-2028 - 7-2031
> Recorded: National Gallery of Art; Washington D.C.
> Producer: Goddard Lieberson
> Released: 16 April 1956
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Biel
> Sent: 04/01/12 01:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Early Columbia Labels&  Sizes
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>   On 3/31/2012 11:29 AM, David Lennick wrote:>  Keep going through this site..you'll find a few surprises, like a 78 issue from>  The Confederacy, 78 set MM-1111, disc 4818, mx CO 51880 (so it's ten-inch).>  1954 issue. http://majesticrecord.com/labelscolumbia2.htm dl This is a surprise! So I assume there also was an issue of The Union. But this must have been expensive for Columbia to produce with a fancy 10-inch album for potentially very few sales. It would have made more sense to do it as 12-inchers. I've never even seen hints that this exists. Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com