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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Generic Steinweiss covers for Columbia MX series 78 rpm sets
These are all the generic Steinweiss covers I have for MX series sets. Next, I hope to post the X and MX series sets that I have with individual covers.
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Tagged Ania Dorfmann, Faust, Felix Weingartner, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
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Steinweiss generic cover 1st type, 4 12-inch and 1 10-inch
Four Columbia MM 12 inch sets with the same, generic cover. And one 10 inch set (mm724a) which I have posted before, repeated here for completeness – same design. I have a few of these with MX numbers also, I … Continue reading
Generic 78 rpm Steinweiss covers, type 2
Back in the ten inch sets I showed some generic covers by Steinweiss for 78 rpm records. Generic covers means the design carries over from one record to another, changing colors and the wording to show what the record is. … Continue reading
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Tagged Madeleine Gray, Polyna Stoska, steinweiss generic covers
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my last three mm’s, 1948, and mop26, 1947
These are the last M or MM covers in my collection, except for generics. And the only MOP that I own, Hansel and Gretel from 1947. I have lp adaptations of 2 of these covers. The next thing will be … Continue reading
MM 733 to MM745 1948 Columbia 12 inch 78 rpm sets
The next three of my MM sets. I am almost done with those, and then its on to the X sets. After that I will probably do the remaining 78 rpm sets – RCA (Stahlhurst, Frank Decker) and Decca and … Continue reading
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Tagged nelson eddy, Ormandy Philadelphia, Stephen Foster, Szell Cleveland
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1948 Columbia 12 inch 78 rpm sets with Steinweiss covers
1948 may be the last year of the first golden age of record covers. I haven’t decided yet. Here are three first rate covers, Alex Steinweiss at his most inventive. I have never heard anything with Kostelanetz’s name on it … Continue reading
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Tagged andre kostelanetz, cole porter, fritz reiner, lily pons
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last three from 1947
MM714 is the last Columbia 12 inch set from 1947, according to http://shellackophile.blogspot.com. Three very nice covers.
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Tagged dePaur chorus, kostelanetz nutcracker, serkin appasionata
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My remaining mm600s, 1947
It always amazes me how few of these covers I have seen reused on lp covers. Tastes change fast in graphic arts, so mostly covers don’t get used ten years later. They sometimes come back as nostalgia many years after … Continue reading
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Tagged bruno walter, Eugene Ormandy, Helen Traubel, Igor Stravinsky, nelson eddy, Northwest Outpost, rise stevens
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mm660s, 1947 columbia steinweiss 12 inch covers
All I have of Columbia 12 inch sets in the M or MM 660s. Some brilliant designs, I consider 1946 to 1948 to be the peak years for record cover design, especially Steinweiss’. Note that only one of them has … Continue reading
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