[78-L] Need recording date Decca Wilmouth Houdini

[David Lennick]

The first million-selling album, period?! Or the first calypso album? Its gold 
record was awarded in '63..Oklahoma and South Pacific had passed the million 
mark by '58, according to our favorite source of reliability, The Book of 
Golden Discs.

Yes to New York.

dl

On 8/7/2012 12:51 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Damn, that's the page that got torn out to use as a bookmark.
>> (September 19, 1940.)  dl
>
> Thanks! Is that NYC?  I do see that he did not record in Trinidad for
> Decca.
>
> Leah wanted the date to update a webpage for her OTHER job at the
> Brooklyn Public Library doing publicity for the displays in the library.
>   Right now it only says  c. 1940 by this album.
> http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/events/exhibitions/calypso-music-postwar-america
>
> Is there any truth to the note in it that Belafonte's Calypso was the
> first album to sell a million COPIES?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.,com
>
> On 8/7/2012 12:32 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> I need the recording date for Decca 18000,18001, and 18002 in album 198,
>> Wilmouth Houdini Calypsos Vol 2. I don't have the matrix numbers, but
>> they should be listed in Ruppli Vol 2 page 618. (I only have the index
>> volume.) Thanks    Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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