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

[David Lennick]

I'm surprised to see a 2-disc "Tempest" listed (Raymond Massey, music by Paul 
Bowles, Polymusic 5001/2). Other than this and Romeo and the Paul Robeson 
Othello (which was also somewhat edited), no complete Shakespeare on lp for a 
while yet. Still nothing but these and some excerpt collections by the end of 1952.

dl

On 9/1/2012 10:32 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
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>
> 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.