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

[David Lennick]

Amazing!

dl


On 4/26/2018 5:52 PM, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
> More data on the subject...
> 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.
>
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