[78-L] Almanac Singers first album

[David Lennick]

K 105 is on the spine of the Blitzstein.

Note the bottom of 6 Songs..they forgot to remove "the" when they changed it 
from The Music Room so it's "The Keynote Recordings Inc".

Okay, this does say K101.

dl

On 3/26/2014 12:11 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
> See
> http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1940-6-Songs-for-Democracy-3-78rpm-Record-Set-Spanish-War-Music-Album-Keynote-/261403834890#ht_253wt_848
> The last image of this later version, with has Keynote on the front cover, shows spine with nr K-101.
> What's on spine of 105 (had no image of this until now) ?
>
> The question remains why nr 102 can be found on 3 different albums produced by Keynote.
>
> han enderman
> ===
>>>> Yes but neither is K-101. This is where a Keynote discography would come in
> handy..Thomas Stern? Jack Raymond?
>
> I've had 6 Songs for Democracy several times and never seen one with a K-
> prefix, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be one on a later issue. It
> probably stayed in print as long as Keynote existed..I've seen it with very
> thin pressings. I don't know if it got reissued on Theme. I had Music Room 105
> and didn't know anything about it till I did some research and found out about
> the Topic source.
>
> I've had two of the Almanac discs but not the album. (Info should be in the
> Bear Family "Songs for Political Action" set which is not handy at the moment.)
> So I can't answer the question of it being album 102 if there was no Almanac 101.
>
> (K105 is No For An Answer..that's one I know since it's on a shelf behind me,
> as well as on eBay.)
>
> dl
>
> On 3/26/2014 12:43 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> Had not yet noticed this before, but there are 2 versions of the 101 Album, pres. with the same Music Room records inside (which mention Keynote on labels).
>> The first version (of which I have a single bad image) states along the lower border of the front cover:
>> "The Music Room International Series - Set 101", just as on the labels.
>> The later, more common version gives "The Keynote Recordings, Inc." with address, and "Album Nr. 101".
>>
>> I have a single image of Music Room/Keynote 4-A (Paddy Ryan), which mentions Made in England 1940,
>> WMA Topic Records Club.
>> But the surprise is now that this label also states "The Music Room's International Series - Set 102",
>> so this would be Keynote Album 102 I assume.
>> Then why another album K-102, as I said, and why was the first (and only) Almanac Records Album numbered 102 ??
>>
>> han enderman
>> ===
>>>>> I'm looking for info but I'm pretty sure that 6 Songs For Democracy was never a
>> K number, being on the Music Room International label instead. Seems to me that
>> the second Music Room album was a set of records dubbed from Topic (UK). I've
>> had one of the discs and am looking to see where I logged the information.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 3/25/2014 11:10 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
>>> The first album by the Almanac Singers (Seeger etc) was released in May 1941 as Almanac Records Album 102.
>>> Due to its political aims, the 3 records were not released on Keynote, but on this special label, and were only available for a short time.
>>> Keynote Album 101 (6 Songs For Democracy: Discos De Las Brigadas Internacionales) had been issued in 1940(?).
>>> Can it be confirmed that the Almanac number (102) was actually the next number in the Keynote 100 series ?
>>> There is however a real Keynote Album K-102, Early American Ballads by John&    Lucy Allison.
>>> Remarkable is the K prefix, which does not occur on the cover of early Keynote albums.
>>> When was K-102 issued and was this cat.nr used to fill the gap in the numerical album list?
>>>
>>> han enderman
>> <<<