[78-L] ROYCROFT - English Singers WORD BOOK

[David Lennick]

If anyone is looking for these records, with a word book, contact me. I have 2 incomplete sets and several singles plus the book. I won't say whether these all comprise one complete set (+ extras) because some discs were issued with different couplings, alternate takes (with or without the lyrics read at the top) etc.

dl

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> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:32:35 -0400
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> Subject: [78-L] ROYCROFT - English Singers  WORD BOOK
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> 
> Word Book of The English Singers Music
> 
> ROYCROFT "LIVING TONE" RECORDS
> 
> Wm. H. Wise & Co., Sole Distributors
> 
> 50 West 47th Street, New York
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>  
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>   This item is approx 4x9 (tall), 32 unnumbered pages, plus cover.  Unsigned
> essay on early music,
> 
> notes and text for each  song on records 151 through 162.  Title page states
> "Enlarged edition, Copyright 1928".
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>   Was this booklet included with the Roycroft album or sold separately ??
> 
>   Was there a previous  non enlarged edition ??
> 
>   Anyone know who wrote these annotations ??
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>   Did other Roycroft albums have similar booklets ??
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>   Last page of booklet:
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>     "This is the happiest evening The English Singers have spent in America.
> Your Living Tone Records have captured completely the very life of our
> music."
> 
>     THAT was the spontaneous outburst of Cuthbert Kelly, organizer and
> spokesman of The English Singers, after they had heard the first finished
> records of their music.  It expressed the pent up emotions of these great
> artists when they realized that ROYCROFT Records had caught the very spirit
> of their singing and would give to future generations "living tone"
> reproductions of their 300-year-old music which they had revived to delight
> the world.
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> ----
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> Thomas.
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