[78-L] THEME Records (Keynote label successor) =Thomas reply re set 102 from TOPIC

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here is link to the online TOPIC discography - 78rpm releases - the Music Room set is taken from these.....
  http://www.mustrad.org.uk/discos/discog.htm
Cheers, Thomas.

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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
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The Robeson was originally on Keynote, withdrawn almost immediately after 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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