Re: [ARSCLIST] Hatto, etc.

[Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>  > An interesting feature was that you could issue the pop and show 
> stuff either
> as instrumental items or, by overdubbing, have them appear as vocal 
> versions.  I
> suspect the old "Ed Sullivan Presents" broadway show series was thus created.

Do you know who sang on these Ed Sullivan Presents recordings.

>  >
> >  One of my odd jobs was hunting down all the cheap issues of West Side Story
> and songs therefrom for Leonard Bernstein's office so they could be sure they
> were collecting royalties.

I have a West Side Story on Vox. Are the credits legitimate???


>  > Sales were not restricted to the US.  There was a Mikado, 
> possibly from one of
> these sources, with a cast including Martyn Green, which was issued 
> on Allegro.
> The same instrumental performance appeared behind a version in German, or so I
> recall.

Wasn't this the recording with Richard Korn conducting?


>  >
> >  Some of the Halo (.$ .99) records were made this way.  I remember 
> > Eddie Smith
> (EJS records, Golden Age of Opera, etc.) once telling me he used 
> these tapes to
> record some of the active opera singers of the period.  Kurt Baum 
> may have been
> one.  This was probably part of a gig Eddie did for Allegro or Remington that
> trickled down to Halo.  I've no paper work on this, just 
> recollection.  I'm sure
> other tenors of that ilk reused these audio backgrounds.


I have quite a few Allegro and remington opera recordings and I 
wouldn't be surprised that most of them were made with the singers 
performing with pre-recorded backgrounds. I remember recordings of 
piano accompaniments for classical songs, although I do not recall 
the label name. They used to be sold in Patelson's music across the 
street from the stage entrance to Carnegie Hall.

And there were always Music Minus Ones for classical players and jazz 
instrumentalists.

>  >
> >  I recall sitting late a couple of nights in the old Crest 
> > Cafateria on 57th St
> in NY with George Goldner, a rock behind-the-scenes personality, plus a friend
> of mine who had German and Dutch, the three of us making up 
> performer names for
> symphonic recordings.  George was planning a bargain line from these sources.
> This was about 1964.  I think some of these came on Roulette and/or 
> a sub-label,
> maybe Forum.

I have Forum SF 9044 which is JOYCE HATTO performing Rhapsody in Blue 
with the "Hamburg Pro Music", "George Byrd" conducting. Having never 
heard of that maestro, I wonder if he was real or a pseudonym.

>  >
> >  In addition, Vox leased tapes for use in some of encycloperdia 
> > sets and other
> ventures.  Sometimes credited, often not, they add to the confusion.

What do you mean by "encyclopedia sets". I don't recall many Vox's 
with misleading attributions, except for the several names for the 
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Pro Musica, which I 
believe was basically the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra without 
Munchinger conducting. I almost forgot,  the Corelli Tri-Centenary 
String Orchestra which was comprised of NBC Symphony players.


>


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