[78-L] THEME Records (Keynote label successor) =Lennick reply

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I've had Music Room 5:
THE BLACK BLACKOUT (Steve Weaver) JONATHAN CROFT; Ethel Green, pianist
HERE WE  COME (Woddis-Berry) TOPIC VARIETY CHORUS and ORCHESTRA, vocal SAM BROWNE
The Music Room's International Series 5, from Set 102, Topic Records Club, 1940

I can't imagine why Bernay would have reissued that set. The ORIGINAL couldn't 
have sold 50 copies.

dl

On 5/12/2014 9:43 PM, 78-L Mail List wrote:
> 4-A is the only label scan I have of MR set 102 and mentions London 1940.
> Was this issued in England on Topic at the time?
>
> Will send you and thomas the images.
> he
> ===
>>>>
> The Robeson was originally on Keynote, withdrawn almost immediately after
> issue. I don't know what T-102A means unless it's a matrix number for the dub
> of the Robeson.
>
> I've had only one disc from Music Room Set 102 and it seems to me it also said
> the originals were recorded in Barcelona..which of course they weren't. I've
> seen the Spanish sticker on different sides of the "6 Songs" set, by the way.
> It should refer only to one particular side which was dubbed from a cracked
> disc and which has a swish throughout (they smeared vaseline over the crack to
> get one quiet play from it). Should be on disc 1 side 2.
>
> If TALP 103 is "No for an Answer", maybe it's the 3rd issue, maybe the only LP.
> I've seen only one copy of that in all these years.
>
> dl
>
> On 5/12/2014 8:37 PM, Han Enderman wrote:
>> Theme 1-3 were in album T.A. 101 (Six Songs...). This album nr is on the labels.
>> The album cover is as usual, but now stating "Released by Theme Records, New York, N. Y. - Album TA No. 101".
>> The 2 other editions of the album mention Music Room Int. or Keynote.
>> The Music Room labels mention Set 101.
>>
>> Music Room Set 102 (from WMA Topic) contains records 4-6. 4-A label mentions Paddy Ryan.
>>
>> Theme T-5-A is Robeson, Spring Song.
>> This 5-A label also gives T 102 A. Does this refer to a Theme Album 102 ?
>> Apparently old label blanks were used, since the Robeson label has the legend of the
>> "Discos de las Brigadas Int... Espana" along the lower rim and Made in Barcelona around the hole !
>>
>> The sticker in Spanish, which was on Music Room 1, is also on my label image of Theme 1-B.
>>
>> Was the Robeson also on Keynote?
>> The Theme labels are so much resembling the 1940 Music Rooms that I assumed they were from the same period.
>> Were they dubbed from Music Room?
>> I assume this material was orig. issued on Music Room and not available in Europe?
>>
>> I found an image of LP Theme TALP-103; maybe the reissue mentioned by david.
>>
>> han enderman
>> ===
>>>>> Paul Robeson's "Spring Song"/"O Give Me Your Hand" was definitely reissued on
>> Theme. Thin sounding dub, vinyl pressing. I've had it twice.
>>
>> AEI reissued No For An Answer on LP in the 70s. I never bothered with their
>> stuff if I didn't have to.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 5/12/2014 6:53 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>>> These questions have been on the list earlier, but I don't recall any detailed
>>> information being posted.
>>>
>>> When Keynote was sold to Mercury, a group of albums (mostly the left wing material)
>>> were retained by Bernay, and some reissued on the THEME label.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a list of WHICH discs appeared on THEME label 78's (for example 6 Songs for Democracy),
>>> or LP (e.g. NO FOR AN ANSWER) ?????
>>>
>>> or have ANY material on the THEME label ?????
>>>
>>> Were the 78's pressed on shellac or plastic/vinyl ?????
>>>
>>> Does anyone know who now owns the THEME/KEYNOTE (NON MERCURY) masters ?????
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>> <<<
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