[78-L] One of the Six Songs for Democracy

[David Lennick]

On 6/21/2012 3:56 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Keynote Records was launched with the reissue of the SOVIET Spanish Civil War
>> recordings!? Who writes this crap?
>
> Ronald D. Cohen wrote what you called crap but actually misinterpreted
> where the commas were placed.  It should be interpreted to mean Bernay
> "launched Keynote Records in 1940 with the reissue of Soviet recordings,
> and Six Songs for Democracy, songs of the Spanish Civil War."  Remember,
> Bernay was the one who re-pressed the 39 World Fair discs when the
> Soviet pressings ran out.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Actually I did not know that, although the Soviet discs were also recut at 
Reeves. And I can see why I misinterpreted the comma.

Now then, where's the answer to my other question about the "6 Songs" story?

dl

>
> http://books.google.ca/books?id=xV6tghvO0oMC&pg=PA571&lpg=PA571&dq=%22six+songs+for+democracy%22&source=bl&ots=s99Vy5ymPM&sig=HrOTe__hGsP58pvNW_WAIDsSXeE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1i3jT97xLsPn0QG26f2vAw&ved=0CFoQ6AEwCDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false
> (From something called The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, Volume 1)
> page 571
> dl
>
> On 6/21/2012 10:08 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Where the heckity heck is the story of how the original 78s were transferred at
>> Reeves Sound Studios, and one was cracked so it had to be smeared with axle
>> grease or something to play through (which is the real reason for the sticker
>> on the American labels, not defective processing due to bombing raids)? I
>> thought it was in the Bear Family "Political Action" book but I can't find it
>> there. Was it online, maybe a link from the Almanac Singers website?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 6/21/2012 8:58 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>>> Lied der Zeit 100, 102&  104 are also by Ernst Busch (103 and 105+ not seen).
>>> Some labels mention Otto Dobrindt, Dir.
>>> Die Thälmann-Kolonne has comp. Paul Dessau on the German label (101-B),
>>> but Ernst-Daniel on Keynote 2-B.
>>> On the available labels I see no other duplications with Keynote Album 101.
>>>
>>> han enderman
>>> ===
>>>>>> I've never seen one of these on auction before. (An original German disc, side
>>> 2 is one of the selections in the Keynote/Music Room "Six Songs for Democracy"
>>> album.)
>>>
>>> http://www.ebay.de/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160822272640
>>>
>>> dl
>
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