Seventy Years of Issues: Historical Vocal 78 rpm Pressings from Original Masters 1931-2001

By Dundurn

Short-listed for the 2002 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

In the seventy years since 1931, various organizations large and small, including several semi-private ones, have issued or re-issued various original 78 rpm recordings from original metal plates. No comprehensive listing of these has ever before appeared; this is the first, and gathers together all the various information of ongoing interest. This is a most important addition to the record-collecting bibliography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Jan 1, 2001
• ISBN: 9781459712997

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Seventy Years

of Issues

Historical Vocal 78rpm Pressings

from Original Masters

1931-2001

Compiled with notes by

Tom Peel and John Stratton

Foreword by The Earl of Harewood

Copyright © John Stratton and Tom Peel, 2001

Foreword © The Earl of Harewood, 2001

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency.

Editorial Co-ordinator: Anthony Hawke

Design: V. John Lee

Photography: Giulio M. Buttino

Technical Assistance: Thomas Loree

Printer: Friesens Corporation

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Stratton, John, 1931-

Seventy years of issues: historical vocal 78rpm pressings from original masters 1931-2001

ISBN 1-55002-352-7

1. Vocal music – Discography. 2. Sound recordings – Catalogs.

I. Peel, Tom, 1939- . II. Title.

This book was made possible through the generous assistance of

The Historic Singers Trust, and Dr. John Stratton.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program, The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit Program.

Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book.

The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credit in subsequent editions.

J. Kirk Howard, President

Printed and bound in Canada.

Printed on recycled paper.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work would not have been possible without the full support and advice of the Historic Masters Committee: The Earl of Harewood, Stanley Henig, Richard Bebb, Eliot Levin, John Stratton, Michael Henstock, Tom Peel and Roger Beardsley.

It would also be a much less accurate work without the previous efforts of (especially) William Moran, Julian Morton Moses, Alan Kelly and the dozens of scholarly contributors to The Record Collector over the past fifty-odd years.

John Stratton in particular wishes to thank Thomas Loree and John Rutherford for their secretarial assistance in putting the layout together, and Giulio M. Buttino for the great patience exercised in photographing original labels.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Listing by Issuer

Cross Index

FOREWORD

The sin of envy is one from which collectors of old vocal records are by no means immune, and I was first affected by it when I was a schoolboy before the Second World War and read of the re-issues of recordings by legendary singers which were out of my reach because they were mainly published on the other side of the Atlantic. Eventually, I got hold of one or two by Lilli Lehmann (published in Europe)