[78-L] Need recording date Decca Wilmouth Houdini

[Cary Ginell]

Belafonte's "Calypso" was the first album by a single artist to sell a million copies is how I understand the claim. Many sources get this wrong and forget to include "single artist" in their claim.
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 13:01:48 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Need recording date Decca Wilmouth Houdini
> 
> 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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