[78-L] ~ Atlantic Records - Shakespeare series LP early 1950s

[Michael Biel]

The bio of Ahmet Ertegun, The Last Sultan,  discusses these and says
that the sales were not good, and even thought they had planned on
beating the market to doing a full series of Shakespeare, they didn't go
any further. They had thought that every university library would buy
it.  

Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com  

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] ~ Atlantic Records - Shakespeare series LP early
1950s
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, September 01, 2012 10:23 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

Romeo and Juliet is the only one listed in Schwann, July 1951. 2 12"
lps, not 
covered by the price list in the back so this may have been Atlantic's
first 
12" issue. I guess Webster and Eva LeGallienne were still on speaking
terms if 
no longer an item.

dl

On 9/1/2012 9:31 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>
> Billboard May 27, 1950 announced ATLANTIC Records entry into LP with a series
> of Shakespeare recordings to be produced by Margaret Webster.
> The article announces plans to record ROMEO AND JULIET, TAMING OF THE SHREW and MIDSUMMERs NIGHT DREAM,
> and a 10-inch LP of SONNETS recited by Cedric Hardwicke.
>
> I am aware of ONLY ALS-401 ROMEO and JULIET.
>
> WERE ANY recordings, other than Romeo and Juliet, made and/or released ?????
>
> Thanks, Thomas.