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Artist: Jean Hippach Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: 91078 Date: 1919 Format: 10" Genre: Classical Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Jean Hippach	Caro Mio Ben	Giordani	Rate

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Personal Record
Specially Made for
Jean Hippach (a.k.a. Gertrude I. "Jean" Hippach, 1894-1974)

Runout: 91078, recorded ca. 1919.

Label printing date code FX = June 1919.

This popular Italian aria used to be attributed to Giuseppe Giordani (1751-1798), but is now thought to have been written by his brother, Tommaso Giordani (1730-1806), who wrote it for a concert in London, probably in 1782.

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xiphophilos 23rd Mar 2024		These private recordings were a not inexpensive way to have one's own voice immortalized. Around 1917, Columbia responded to an inquiry of the black tenor Roland Hayes, as Tim Brooks reports here, that they could record him privately for "a base price of $50 to make one ten-inch master, with three single-faced pressings provided. Piano accompaniment was included." Copies of the recording cost extra. Per Brooks, "Columbia charged $1 each for the first 50 copies of a ten-inch, single faced disc, declining to about 60¢ each in quantities of 500." So someone who wanted 50 copies of their own record paid $100. In today's dollars, that would be the equivalent of $1,793.79 (source).

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