[78-L] album reissues vs new material

[Michael Biel]

Actually it might be the Victor 1926 Mother's Day album which you sold
me empty.  The supplement announcement specified it had three specific
records in it recorded a few weeks earlier, I think in the 19990's. 
Later in the year their other two albums allowed the buyer to make
substitutions (Victor Orthophonic sampler) or insert their choice
(Christmas album) but the Mother's Day album had no substitutions for
those newly recorded discs.

The Gramophone Shop specified on their two Alec Templeton albums that
the records were not to be sold separately, so they were probably all
new.  In fact, just about all of the late 30s albums by Liberty,
Rabsons, Gramophone Shop, were new discs.  With the except of the sets
titled "Souvenir", all of the first 125 or so Decca albums were NOT
filled with old recordings.  All were first release designed for the
album.  The same is true of the Artie Shaw on Bluebird, Benny Goodman on
Victor, and the Kosty on Brunswick.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] album reissues vs new material
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, March 21, 2014 1:47 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

"Cheerio" would be my guess, or the English Singers set, both on
Roycroft 
around 1928. But both are somewhat specialized.

dl

On 3/21/2014 1:17 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> After looking at today's offerings on ePay and seeing common 78rpm
> albums filled with re-releases I wondered "What was the first album set
> that contained new material recorded for the set, and not re-issues of
> earlier material?" I wouldn't be surprised if Classical music took 1st
> prize, and Kiddie music took 2nd, but when was it figured out that it
> could be applied to pop material?
> And, a little more darkly, when was is some record promoter figured out
> that if one of their clients had a #1 single hit they could pad out
> another 9 or 11 tunes on an album (I'm talking of LPs here) and make BIG
> BUCKS on sales as well as on publishing for the other turkeys that were
> on the album?
> To me this was the set-up (well, one of the set-ups) that eventually
> helped bring down the music industry. That, and many other early errors
> I won't go in to here, plus the sheer stupidity of the "it worked great!
> Now we're doing it to the hilt and it's not working anymore so we'll
> just keep on doing it and hope for the best" mentality. Turned out to be
> no money in that business attitude.
> Malcolm