78 RPM - The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy - Nutcracker Suite - Victor Red Seal

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Artist:	The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy
Label:	Victor Red Seal
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	11-8916 / DM 1020
Date:	Dec 1945
Format:	12"
Title:	Nutcracker Suite
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy	March	Tchaikovsky	Rate
A2	The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy	Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy	Tchaikovsky	Rate
B1	The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Eugene Ormandy	Waltz Of The Flowers (Part 1)	Tchaikovsky	Rate

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Disc 2 of Album DM 1020
This is an Automatic Record Changer album and disc 2 contains Sides 2 & 5 of the album

Recorded at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA, January 10, 1945.(source)

The New Records, December 1945, page 3.

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xiphophilos ● 18th Feb 2023		Thanks, I think that explains it. I remember noticing one or two other cases where Billboard reports a wrong cat. nr. In any case, Victor's decision to exert their contractual right to remake the recordings turned out to be a goldmine for them. This album seems to have been among the top-selling Classical Music albums for years, first on 78rpm, then on 45rpm. In the April 18, 1953 of Billboard, the 45rpm version WDM 1020 is still listed on nr. 3.



cyeaman SUBS 18th Feb 2023		I wonder if Billboard listed the wrong catalog number at first? The album is listed as M-915 for only few weeks in January-February 1946, and then as M/DM 1020 thereafter. Thanks for resolving the recording date issue. It is interesting to note that these 1945 re-recordings of the earlier 1941 unissued recordings were made after The Philadelphia Orchestra had entered into an exclusive contract with Columbia Records. Kaplan states that this was the only time Victor exercised a contractual clause that allowed the orchestra to re-make recordings of unissued sides.



xiphophilos ● 18th Feb 2023		This is strange. The source of the January 10, 1945 recording date, to which I have linked above, is the same book you quote for your 1941 date, Richard A. Kaplan, "The Philadelphia Orchestra: An Annotated Discography", page 104. Actually, now I see. The December 20, 1941 date is listed by Kaplan on page 98, but he claims that these recordings remained unissued: "Unpublished. Album Nr. DM-915 (11-8247/49) assigned but not issued." What is still weirder is that Victor Album M-915 (so the standard-coupled sister album to the auto-coupled DM-915) is listed as a bestselling album (5th week) in Billboard, June 15, 1946. Did Victor release the earlier recordings from 1941 after all?



cyeaman SUBS 17th Feb 2023		Thank you, xiphophilos. In "The Philadelphia Orchestra: An Annotated Discography", author Richard A. Kaplan reports that this performance was recorded on December 20, 1941. From the review you linked, it appears that there were problems with at least one of the original masters. Kaplan states that It was dubbed on February 27, 1945 for this release, so presumably Victor engineers were able to correct some of the sound problems with the original recordings, although the reviewer states that blemishes remain, such as "swishing sounds".



xiphophilos ● 17th Feb 2023		Now I have proof: The American Record Guide, vol. 12.4, December 1945, reviewed this album on page 104, and reports that the album is issued both as M 1020 and DM 1020.



xiphophilos ● 17th Feb 2023		This album was both released in a standard-coupled version as Victor M 1020 and in an auto-coupled version as Victor DM 1020. Both versions probably came out at the same time. The Victor M 1020 album was reviewed in The New Records, December 1945, page 3. The entire album is available for listening (with an image of the cover) at https://archive.org/details/NutcrackerSuite



cyeaman SUBS 17th Feb 2023		I probably have the release date wrong on this one. Michael Sherman states that "RCA" was added to the Victor name on Red Seals at the end of January 1946, at the same time as all the other record series. However, a search of Billboard for this catalog # (or related #s) shows that it entered the classical album chart in June 1946 and stayed there until April 1948.



W.B.lbl 16th Feb 2023		Is it my imagination, or was the Red Seal subsidiary a bit behind in being "RCA Victor'd"?

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