[78-L] Spanish 33 1/3 shellack LPs from 1933

[Inigo Cubillo]

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David: answering your question, they are commercial issues, and original 
recordings, not dubbed.

They bear these numbers and credits:

REGAL - Grabado VIva-Tonal. 33 1/3 Revoluciones por minuto
RKY-10001 -- Orquesta Viva-Tonal, Director: Mtro. Montorio
mx. no. (W)KY3-2    Marina (Arrieta) Fantasia.
mx. no. (W)KY4       Bohemios (A. Vives) Fantasia.

REGAL RKY-10003 -- Banda Viva-Tonal, Director: Mtro. Montorio
mx. no. (W)KY1-2    Las Hilanderas (J. Serrano) Fantasia.
mx. no. (W)KY2-2    Los Claveles (J. Serrano) Fantasia.

These are fantasias (=orchestral suites made of of excerpts) of well-known 
spanish zarzuelas (a native style of operetta), played by an orchestra or 
band assembled for the recording, and conducted by Daniel Montorio, a 
conductor that was involved with Columbia for several years in many 
orchestral recordings.

The first records of this series (RKY-10001 and 10002) were issued in late 
1932/early 1933, as they are featured in a record review of a spanish 
musical magazine (Musicologia, no.1, may 1933, page 15) issued once a month 
in the period 1933-1936. The other two (only four were issued) must have 
been issued later, I dont know when, as I could not find yet any more 
reviews.  They appear in the first (re-founded) Columbia catalogue for 1936 
(december, 1935) relabeled as Columbia RGLD-10000 to 10003. They still 
appear in the 1942 catalogue, but not in later catalogues. No more were made 
until the advent of the vinyl LP, which spanish Columbia started to sell in 
1953.


On 22 Apr 2018 David Lennick wrote:
Were they for commercial sale or were they for movie houses to play? English 
Columbia had a line of 33RPMs in the early 30s, all dubbed from 78s. 
Instrumentals like Ketelbey pieces and the Debroy Somers Orchestra.
dl

On 4/22/2018 1:42 PM, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
This morning I have found (and purchased) something I had never seen before 
and I suspect will never find again: two of the four spanish shellack LPs 
from 1933. These were recorded by spanish Columbia of San Sebastian (Basque 
Country). From bibliography I have known that at least four of these were 
recorded and issued early in 1933 (Regal RKY-10001 to 10004) albeit with 
little commercial success. Nevertheless, they still were in the catalogue in 
December 1935, when the spanish branch of Columbia had been liquidated and 
then re-founded as an independent company, losing its ties with US and UK 
Columbia. These records were relabeled/renumbered as Columbia RGLD-10000 to 
10003. In the May 1942 Columbia catalogue they also appear, but not later, 
and not anymore until the advent of the vinyl microgroove LP in 1948 (1953 
in Spain). They must be very scarce, as in 40 years collecting, they are the 
first examples I have ever seen, and in Spain it is easy to find many 
pressings of various of the spanish Columbia products from these years.