[78-L] Victor Program Transcription album

[David Lennick]

This may have been the last set to be issued on Long Play. And I know where 
this copy came from.

dl

On 2/24/2013 1:37 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: "Han Enderman"<jcenderman at solcon.nl>
>> An unusual early longplay album (c.1932) is available at ebay
>> # 370764554565:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/STOKOWSKI-Shostakovich-Sym-1-RCA-Victor-PROGRAM-TRANSCRIPTION-SET-1932-/370764554565?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item56534a2145
>> It is STOKOWSKI: SZOSTAKOWICZ, Symphony no. 1 (Victor Program
>> Transcription L 11744-6).
>
> It has a reserve -- the dealer knows what he has.  The dealer is, of
> course, Dave Weiner.
>
>> The record label of L-11744-B (12" 33rpm) shows mx 78454, and
>> at left: LAM 192-4, which must be the side in the album.
>> Some remarks:
>> I have a few label images in the L-11600 series (in range
>> L-11600-11669). These do not mention mxs or album nrs on the
>> labels. Was the L-11700 series a new series or a continuation
>> of the L-11600 series?
>
> The price list in the Victor catalogs shows the L-11600 and L-11700
> series separately on the same line, both at $3.00.  Most of the albums
> have the manual discs in the L-11600 series and the automatic coupling
> in the L-11700 series but THIS set has both versions in the L-11700
> series as I note below.
>
>> What is the meaning of LAM? Is this part of a single album series,
>> with the L added for LP albums?
>
> Yes, the album prefix LAM means Long play, (slide) Automatic,
> Masterpiece.
>
>> Record L-11744 couples sides 1 and 4, evidently (and not 1-2
>> or 1-6). Semi-Manual or Semi-Automatic?  han enderman
>
> Slide Automatic couples 1 and 4 on L-11744, 2 and 5 on L-11545, but the
> last disc is a single sided disc so it is just side 3 on L-11746-S.
>
> The Manual album was LM-192 with sides 1 and 2 on L-11749, sides 3 and 4
> on L-11750, and side 5 on L-11751-S.
>
> The 78 RPM versions of this were M-192 (7884-7888-S) and AM-192
> (7889-7893-S).  The price of the 9-sided 78 versions was $9.00 while the
> LP 5-sided versions were $7.50.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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