G&S Discography Revision History
February 23, 1999 — March 7, 1999
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Version 15.4 — March 7, 1999 (480 pages)
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Added a new recording of Pirates from the 1960s,
published on the Rondo label.
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Updated the London issue histories for the
1949-55 D'Oyly Carte monaural series.
Thanks to Stan DeOrsey for his extensive research, and also
to Mitch Orman.
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Added Mel Moratti's review of
H.M.S. Gilbert & Sullivan.
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Added Stephen Turnbull's comments on the
1907 Pathé Yeomen.
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Added Australian issues of the
1964 D'Oyly Carte Trial,
1950 D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers; and
further issues of the
Concert Hall Mikado
Michael Sammes Iolanthe, and
Michael Sammes Mikado.
(Thanks to Darryl Lock.)
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Found a better picture of the "three little maids" from the
Kukla, Fran and Ollie Mikado.
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Added album cover art to
Nelson Eddy: Patter Songs from G&S,
The World of Gilbert & Sullivan,
The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan,
and Sargent/EMI Patience.
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Added additional information on Australian releases of the
1960 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore,
1965 D'Oyly Carte Ida,...
(Thanks to Darryl Lock.)
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Updated the issue history of the
1927 HMV Trial.
(Thanks to Bruce Miller.)
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Corrected a number of typos. Thanks to Bruce Miller and Li Yipeng.
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Version 15.3 — March 1, 1999 (480 pages)
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Version 15.2 — February 28, 1999 (480 pages)
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Added a link from the
Kukla, Fran and Ollie Mikado page to the
Unofficial Kuklapolitan Web Page,
where a couple of video clips from that performance are posted.
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Added background material to the HMV 1922 Iolanthe,
particularly concerning the history of the recording sessions and the allotment
of conducting chores. Thanks to Peter Parker for his contributions on this subject.
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Added Chris Webster's comments on the 1950s Stanford Robinson instrumental disc,
G&S Favourites.
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Created a master list of revisions, which
is now accessible from the bottom of every page in the
revision history. Every page in the revision
history is now fixed at 600 pixels wide.
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Added additional artwork to:
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Version 15.1 — February 25, 1999 (479 pages)
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Added an excerpt from
conductor Joseph Batten's biography on the making of the
Columbia abridged sets.
(Thanks to Chris Webster.)
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Added Leon Berger's and Phil Sternenberg's comments on
the making of the 1973 D'Oyly Carte
Pinafore video.
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Added the alternate Oklahoma! ending to the lyrics of
Flanders & Swann's "In the D'Oyly Cart".
(Thanks to Leon Berger.)
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Added two more album cover scans of the
1950 Mikado.
(Thanks to Harry Covington for one of these.)
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Added a laserdisc album cover scan of the
Brent Walker Yeomen.
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Redid the Pinafore,
Princess Ida,
and Haddon Hall home pages—adding
text and artwork.
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Corrected various errors and typos pointed out by David Cookson,
Stan DeOrsey, Bruce Miller, Mel Moratti, and James Tappin.
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Version 15.0a — February 24, 1999 (478 pages)
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Version 15.0 — February 23, 1999 (478 pages)
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The home page has been redesigned. The new
design is meant to be more compact and make things easier to find.
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There is a new page devoted to Recent Issues.
This page is (and will be) devoted to newly issued items within
the Discography's scope. Thanks to Stan DeOrsey for suggesting
this page and developing the first draft of it.
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Stan DeOrsey's Of Ballads, Songs and Snatches,
featuring lost and seldom-recorded G&S pieces, has undergone a
major revision. All the operas are now included, and there are numerous
additions to the first half of the canon that was there previously.
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Added a page that compares the track timings
of three Princess Ida recordings. This came about during a
SavoyNet
discussion about Sir Malcolm Sargent's tempi, particularly on the
1965 set. (Thanks to Chris Webster.)
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Added a chronology of Decca's mono releases.
(Thanks to Chris Webster.)
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Added the 1992 vocal/piano cassette,
If Doughty Deeds
(Jeffrey Benton, Rona Lowe). Thanks to Stan DeOrsey and Stephen Turnbull.
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Added The Music of Gilbert & Sullivan
(HM Marine Band, 1998). This was Bob Lang's final contribution to the
G&S Discography, as he passed away shortly after submitting this
item.
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Added Chris Webster's latest
vintage CD re-issues: the 1922 HMV Pinafore
and the soundtrack of the 1939 Mikado film.
Added David Duffey's review of the former and Michael Walters's review
of the latter.
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Added Lisa Berglund's review of
Bab Ballads and Cautionary Verses.
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Added an anonymous review of the
1971 Granada Television Trial by Jury.
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Added Leon Berger's comments on the
Divine Art Cox and Box.
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Added a discussion on the authenticity of the
recording of Gilbert's voice.
(Thanks to Leon Berger and Michael Walters.)
Added L. Donald Bartholomew's review to the
Stratford Festival Pirates.
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Added research supplied by Chris Webster on the making
of the Halas & Batchelor Ruddigore.
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Added Adrian Bridgeman's comments to the
New Sadler's Wells Ruddigore.
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Added John Cooledge's comments on the DVD re-issue of the
1939 Mikado film.
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Added David Cookson's comments to
Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye.
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Added David Leonard's comments on the
World Record Club recordings.
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Incorporated Bruce Miller's latest research on the issue history
of the Al Goodman Mikado (his comments
apply to Pinafore, too); the 1959 Alan
Ward Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures
album; and, the 1931 D'Oyly Carte Ruddigore.
Bruce also made some suggestions on
Sullivan & Co.:
The Operas That Got Away, which have been incorporated.
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Added Mel Moratti's comments to the
New D'Oyly Carte Mikado Video
and the NZ issue of the
Essgee Pinafore.
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Added Charles Manekin's comments to the
1971 D'Oyly Carte Pinafore.
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Add Li Yipeng's comments to several recordings:
1957 and 1968
Pirates, 1957 and
1973 Mikado,
1971 Pinafore, and
Brent Walker Pinafore.
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Ken Brock pointed out that the Lyric Theater Company recorded
other operas besides
Utopia,
Grand Duke, and
The Mountebanks.
These other recordings do not fall within the scope of the
Discography, but I updated the lyric
overview to mention them.
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Bob Lang pointed out that the
1963 Lyric Theater Utopia was actually
that group's second recording of the opera; they put out an abridged
version in 1957.
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Added Bruce Miller's comments to the 1959 Alan Ward
Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures album.
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Added an additional issue to
Arthur Fiedler's overtures
album. (Thanks to Bob Schaufeld.)
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Updated the LP and 8-track issue history of
The Pirate Movie. (Thanks to
Adrian Bridgeman, Dave Price, Bob Schaufeld, J. Donald Smith,
and David Stone.) Also, added a link to the
Pirate Movie Fan Page [no longer valid].
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Added the recent Acorn Media re-issues of the
Stratford Festival videos.
(Thanks to Bob Lang, Mark Mones, and Charles Lax.)
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Added the new "two-fer" issues of several of the
Sargent/EMI sets.
(Thanks to Chris Webster and Stephen Turnbull.)
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Made a number of corrections to the list of published takes
of the various HMV acoustical recordings, particularly the
1919 Gondoliers. (Thanks
to Chris Webster.)
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Added a link from the
1929 Pirates and the
1930 Pinafore to the
Romophone website [no longer valid].
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Corrected number of errors in the artist
index. Thanks to Louis Silverstein for pointing these out.
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I continue to add scans of album, CD, and video cover art —
mostly those that I either find on the net somewhere, or that people
mail to me. Pages to which images have been added since the last
update include:
Chris Webster also sent me a scanned photo of the singers who made
HMV's 1920 Pirates. Thanks to Chris
and also Jim Tappin for many of the images mentioned above.
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On Chris Webster's suggestion, I have redated several recordings:
As a reminder, the main date of an item is, where known, the date
when it was recorded. The issue history shows dates issued.
In all of the above cases, the recording was made in the year preceding
its issue year.
