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Artist:Hamburg Philharmonia Orchestra
Title:Rhapsody In Blue / Symphony For Blues
Label:  Reo
Country:Canada
Catalogue:R-118
Date:1957
Format:LP
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Hamburg Philharmonia OrchestraSymphony For BluesJoseph Kuhn10.0  Rate
B1Hamburg Philharmonia OrchestraRhapsody In BlueGeorge Gershwin10.0  Rate


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Side A: Conducted by Hienrich Alster.

Side B: Conducted by Hans Jurgen Walther, with David Haines, pianist.

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mojofilter
27th Aug 2022
 The orchestra on this record is most likely Orchester der Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks Hamburg. This LP was originally issued in the US on Somerset P-1800 in mono and stereo. Licenced to Quality Records in Canada, who issued it on their Reo subsidiary label.

D.L. (Dave) Miller, of Somerset Records in Philadelphia, after having recorded the first sides by Bill Haley & The Saddlemen on the Essex label, was known as a "schlockmeister" who would hire European orchestras who were down on their luck, and pay them a one-time session fee to record various orchestral works. He would release them in the US under various artist names, and sell them to rack jobbers who would put them in the $1.99 bins in supermarkets and drug stores in the US and Canada, for people who wanted to hear some music but didn't particularly care what it was or who it was by.

This particular album sold a lot of copies, for it was a very good rendition of "Rhapsody In Blue," with a world-class pianist. Its cover artwork, of a city scene of New York with the Chrysler Building prominent, is legendary. The cover says it was the Hamburg Phiharmonia Orchestra, with David Haines at the piano. However, this same performance was issued on Valiant VM 4902 as by "Roger Aarons at the Steinway," and has been reissued several times as by 101 Strings. So we may never know exactly who the pianist was.

"Symphony For Blues" is an original work by American composer Joseph Kuhn, who was on the Somerset label as an in-house composer. In my humble opinion, this is an incredible performance of an incredible piece of music. This appears to be the only place where it was ever issued. The back cover offers an address where you could write for the orchestral score, but it was defunct as early as the mid -1960s. I know, because hoping I could get physical copies, I could not get a response from them at all in the early 1970s.

Miller also released dozens of albums under the pseudonym of Leo Muller. He was sued by Bill Haley for selling his early recordings without ever paying any royalties. The lawsuit bankrupted Miller, but it didn't stop him selling music for cheap to anyone who would pay for it.
 
 
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6th Nov 2021
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