[78-L] First real LP

[RODMANLEWIS]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 3:10 PM Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid>
wrote:

>
> According to Howard Scott at Columbia Records Bruno Walter's recording
> of Mendelssohn's  "Concerto In E Minor For Violin And Orchestra Op. 64"
> (Columbia ML 4001) was the first 12'' LP ever released, and Frank
> Sinatra's "The Voice Of Frank Sinatra" (Columbia CL 6001) the first
> 10''. Both featured reissues of recordings previously released on 78's.
> At the time of release (1st of July 1948) Columbia had about a hundred
> different titles ready for release, so being "the first" albums these
> two obviously were first only due to their numbering.
>
> But what was the first LP release of "original" material, produced for
> LP, and previously not released on 78?
> The topic was discussed here in 2004, without conclusion:
>
> Steve Abrams wrote about US Columbia:
>
> "I am not aware of any recordings mastered from tape in 1948. There may
> have been some experiments with tape in '48 but tape was not
> introduced until the spring of 1949, for back-ups."
>
> And David Lennick wrote:
>
> "I believe that all of US Columbia's first lps were mastered direct to
> disc from
> the original 16" lacquers, which contained the original 4-minute takes
> recorded
> for 78 issue."
>
> Perhaps it wasn't Columbia at all who first released an "original
> recording" on LP?
>
> Kristjan
> ====
>
I have some vague memory that it might have been the "South Pacific" 12"
album.

     Julian Vein