[78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts

[David Lennick]

The USPS has "Media Mail", which is cheap and reasonably fast. Canada has 
nothing like that. Our prices are so out of touch with reality that I can ship 
a record from the US to a Canadian customer for $6.66..the same package within 
Canada starts at around $9 and increases depending on the weight and distance.

dl

On 8/1/2012 11:40 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> Well if you post any of your 78 rpm Mercury Theater sets then please let me know as I'd like a chance to buy them. I don't care if they are 10 to 15 record each in the sets. I'd still like to play them all the way through on my turntable.
>
> So are you planning to ship things you sell through Ebay&  on 78-C from Canada now? If so then thats fine with me as I've recieved things from Canadian sellers before that were sent from a Canadian post office.
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts
>>
>> And you never know when I'm going to decide to post mine over there (although
>> after today's shlep to the US to send out eBay stuff, I'm seriously considering
>> never doing it again..the highways and border crossings are getting
>> ridiculously congested now that Canada is allowing folks to bring more stuff
>> back duty free, and the Post Office seems to be operating with half its usual
>> staff).
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 7/31/2012 6:00 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>> Thanks again for this info. It will help if I ever decide to search out some of the sets on Ebay one day in the future.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:48 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts
>>>>
>>>> Mercury Text Records, with gold labels, and the first 3 were in Columbia's C-
>>>> album series before that became red label pop albums starting at C-11. (Macbeth
>>>> was C33. I don't know if it had gold labels originally..later, they were all
>>>> blue Masterworks.)
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 7/31/2012 5:45 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for the info David. Didn't know they were reissued on Pearl as CD's. I'd rather find the 78 sets though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did the 78 labels just say Mercury Records at the top or did they say Mercury Text Records instead? I really don't remember....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:27 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Julius Caesar was reissued on lp..in fact it can be seen on an episode of a
>>>>>> famous television comedy. Hint: Welles is on the program. All of the Welles
>>>>>> Mercury albums plus the Julius Caesar Highlights (plus some other abbreviated
>>>>>> productions with Maurice Evans) were done on Pearl in the 90s.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/31/2012 5:21 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>>>>>>> My Deer Park (Texas) high school library had 78 rpm versions of Macbeth&   Julius Ceasar that I was able to borrow in my junior or senior year while I attended there. I don't remember them having many (or any other) 78's besides these 2 sets. Should have recorded them to cassette but I didn't think of that at the time. Just played them once or twice then gave them back to the school library. There were no booklets with them at the time I had borrowed them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Were they ever reissued in 33 rpm format? If so then I've never seen them that way. Just the 78's.....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ________________________________
>>>>>>>> From: Scott<scott at mosaicrecords.com>
>>>>>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:33 PM
>>>>>>>> Subject: [78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi David
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I had 3 Mercury Theatre albums recently that I parted with: one was
>>>>>>>> "Macbeth" which did not contain a booklet nor a pocket.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In conversation with Mike Biel (who bought my other two Mercury Theater
>>>>>>>> albums at the Bash) he agreed with me that these were later pressings...but
>>>>>>>> I would think there would still be a text enclosed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "Julius Ceasar" did have a booklet
>>>>>>>> "Twelfth Night" did not have a booklet
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>> Scott Wenzel
>>>>>>>> /////////////////////////////////////////////////
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>>>>> Subject: [78-L]  Mercury Shakespeare Texts again
>>>>>>>> To: 78L<78-L at 78online.com>
>>>>>>>> Message-ID:<BLU0-SMTP6689058B91972CB7E2A3C2BDC50 at phx.gbl>
>>>>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Repeating the question.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have the text that came with the Orson Welles MERCHANT OF VENICE
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> album? I have only a photocopy of the teacher's notes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And was there a text provided with MACBETH?  My late 40s pressing doesn't
>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>> a pocket for one, although the late issue of Julius Caesar included the
>>>>>>>> book.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>