[78-L] First real LP

[dlennick dlennick]

Not sure if I'm getting thjrough to the list this morning. Test 1-2-3.

And "I Can Hear It Now" went direct to 78 and LP in 1948.

Milhaud's "Le Boeuf Sur le Toit" was in the can for aboiut 4 years till 
issued on 78 and lp in 1949.

dl


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  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



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