78 RPM - Phil Cardew, Edward Silverman And Ben Frankel - Trio (1932) / Monologue From The Soviet Opera "Yemelian Pugachev" - Topic - UK

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Artist:	Phil Cardew, Edward Silverman And Ben Frankel
Label:	Topic
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	TRC 14
Date:	1941
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Phil Cardew, Edward Silverman And Ben Frankel	Trio (1932)	Aram Khatchatourian	Rate
B	Martin Lawrence	Monologue From The Soviet Opera "Yemelian Pugachev"	M. Koval, V. Kamenski	Rate

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Side 1 Phil Cardew, clarient; Edward Silverman, violin; and Ben Frankel, pianoforte.
Side 2 English text by Will Sahnow

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xiphophilos 1st Nov 2015		Thanks for the info. I can sympathize with the excitement over a US BLues record. I wish I could find those where I am on the West Coast - nearly impossible. Any kind of imports are also pretty rare. So when I recently found an entire album full with British 78s, I became quite excited. ;-)



Fokeman 31st Oct 2015		It's not surprising that you didn't find them in the USA. They were run by a very much Communist organisation with most if not all of the members being card-carrying communists. This was perfectly acceptable to most reasonable people (it wasn't the communists who exterminated millions of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and the disabled in the recent war). However in the USA, it was the world's worst nightmare to have someone with loyalties to a political ideal rather than to the Nation State of the US of A. Only later did the horrific excesses of the Stalinist regime become widely known. Oddly enough there were a few recordings that slipped through and I will be putting up Topic issued recordings which were issued by a special label in the USA on 78rpm. Bear in mind also that these records are incredibly fragile. Even in the UK in the 1950s it was almost impossible to get hold of USA 78s and there were import/export implications with the shipment of records across the atlantic. A blues 78 from America arriving in a town would be sufficient for a party to be thrown to listen to a record brought back in a suitcase after a transatlantic trip. The WMA was formed in 1936 by Alan Bush - an English composer and was set up to encourage a community of singers, choirs and performers to engage with each other and between different countries. It was a novel and forward-thinking way of generating friendships and inter-cultural links, whatever your politics. Don't imagine that they found a general public in Britain. In order to buy one initially you had to be part of the "Topic Record Club" (guess what TRC in the catalogue number stands for?) and apart from the classic "The Red Flag / The Internationale" record most of them sold in very poor numbers. It was as a result of poor sales and the risk of draining the financial resources of the thriving WMA organisation that the record company was split off in about 1956 from the WMA to leave it to stand on its own two feet. It is still going today...



xiphophilos 30th Oct 2015		Thanks for the link. I wonder why that didn't appear on top of the Google list. Just FYI, I find these Topic records intriguing, but have never run across any of them in the US. They probably weren't the thing to import during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era. ;-) Judging by the length of the Topic catalog, they seem to have found a buying public in post-war Britain.



Fokeman 30th Oct 2015		Yes, Michael Brocken & Alistair Banfield's discography of Topic as per discography here.



xiphophilos 30th Oct 2015		Release year 1941 per Michael Brocken, The British Folk Revival: 1944–2002 (Source).

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