[78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts

Wed Aug 1 21:20:25 PDT 2012

Sorry, I didn't know that. Well keep shipping from the USPS then.....

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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> 
>Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:48 PM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Mercury Shakespeare Texts
>
>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
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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