[78-L] Edmond O'Brien (and this DOES have 78rpm relevance)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 3 16:20:45 PDT 2013


Sorry, artwork on the paper sleeve version is definitely not generic...shows a 
man reading poetry to a woman, and she's halfway up as if she's about to answer 
the phone. I'm just an old romantic at heart, eh?

On 10/3/2013 5:58 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Edmond O'Brien's MY BELOVED, Mercury MG 25013, was originally recorded
> for..Majestic? c. 1947? I don't see it in the Majestic listings on Ty's site
> but I thought I'd seen the set on 78s.
>
> Good old Mercury, reissuing everything in sight in 1949 and never bothering to
> add composer credits, or in half the cases even to bother listing the titles on
> the jacket. I have one copy of this with a photo of O'Brien on the front, a
> reference to his being a Universal Motion Picture Star, and nothing but catalog
> listings on the back. And I have another copy in a fold-over paper sleeve with
> generic artwork, and with the titles listed (in the wrong order), and catalog
> listings on the back.
>
> (I've managed to identify all the poets btw.)
>
> dl
>


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