Jerome Kern - Music In The Air - 1932 RCA Victor picture disc - 78rpm - RARE
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Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern - MUSIC IN THE AIR
RCA Victor #39001 Original 1932 picture disc
This a wonderful copy of Music In The Air (RCA Victor 39001). Front of disc has a scene photo from the stage production, reverse has 8 personnel photos with signatures.... JEROME KERN, NAT SHILKRET, KATHERINE CARRINGTON & others. PICTURE DISC is surprisingly clean. It appears to be in M- condition but picture discs and colored vinyl are much harder to grade so we will safely grade this in VG++ condition. Please have a look at the pictures!
Below is some information about the record found on the tubes and wires we call the internet:
This is a very rare recording that is a definite collectors' item. This is from an old 12 inch RCA Victor Picture Record. The images above are not of a record label but rather the entire record itself. Victor issued such picture records from 1932 to 1933 profiling artists ranging from Enrico Caruso to country singer Jimmie Rogers. Unfortunately the records came out during the worst months of the Great Depression when few people had the extra money for regular phonograph records let alone higher priced commemoratives. The records sold poorly and were discontinued which accounts for their rarity today. Currently, this is the only such record I have in my collection and, in fact, it was the very first example of one that I had ever seen.
This particular Picture Record was issued to commemorate the 1932 Broadway production Music In The Air with music by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern. The musical starred Walter Slezak, Tullio Carminati, Al Shean, Katherine Carrington, Natalie Hall and Reineld Werrenrath, all of whom appear in photographs on side B of the record. Photos of Jerome Kern and bandleader Nat Shilkret also appear on the record. (Shilkret is the gentleman seen in very bottom photo on the record. This record was the first time I had seen a photo of him.)
At first glance the photos of the musical's stars, along with the wording "Entrusted to this group of stars, Nat Shilkret and his Victor cohorts here present a unique and brilliant tabloid of this great musical show," seems to suggest that this might be a cast recording. A closer look at the credits, however, indicates that the performers are not the "group of stars" but rather the "Victor cohorts."
Here are the songs featured on the recording along with the names of the performers:
Side One
"There's A Hill Beyond A Hill" - Ensemble
"I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" - Marjorie Horton, Robert Simmons & Ensemble
"And Love Was Born" - Conrad Thibault
"When The Spring Is In The Air" - Ensemble
Side Two
"We Belong Together" - Marjorie Horton & Robert Simmons
"In Egern On The Tegern Sea" Marjorie Horton
"One More Dance" - Robert Simmons & Ensemble
"The Song Is You" - Jack Parker & Ensemble.
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