G&S Discography Revision History
December 26, 1995 — January 22, 1996
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Version 2.2 — January 22, 1996 (148 pages)
- Added issue histories for the remaining
Pinafore recordings and
all of Pirates.
- In the opera index and
chronological index, changed the
abbreviation signifying recordings with dialogue from Dlg
to Dial so that it will be easier to distinguish from the
abbreviation for "digital" (Dig).
- Other minor corrections.
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Version 2.1 — January 18, 1996 (148 pages)
- Added issue histories and side listings for recordings of
Pinafore through the 1950s.
- Added the name of the artist playing Peep-Bo to the
Bell Telephone Hour Mikado.
Also, added some additional comments to this recording's web page
and corrected the date from "1950s" to "1960."
- Made catalog number corrections on the
Sargent Trial,
1961 Cox & Box and
1966 Sorcerer.
- Corrected entries in the Artist
Index for Richard Walker and Richard Watson.
- Added the name of the artist playing Fleta to the
1960 Iolanthe.
- Corrected the role assignments for Buttercup and Hebe
in the Sargent/EMI Pinafore.
- Corrected the issue date of the
Odeon Pinafore from 1908
to 1907.
- The launch date of this site was December 26,
1995, not 1994.
- Other miscellaneous corrections.
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Version 2.0a — January 8, 1996 (148 pages)
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Version 2.0 — January 7, 1996 (148 pages)
- Added the artist index.
- Added three new recordings: the
Fulham Light Operatic Society Zoo
on Rare Recorded Editions; the
1965 Lyric Theater Company Grand Duke;
and the
1965 Los Angeles Savoy-Artes Utopia.
- Started adding detailed issue histories to the individual
recordings' web pages.
Cox & Box,
Trial By Jury,
The Zoo and
The Sorcerer
are covered to this point, with the others to follow shortly. Numerous
readers have helpfully provided catalog numbers, but I must especially
single out Seth Schneider, whose incredible database of recordings is making
a monumental contribution to this task.
- Updated the 1950
Mikado to show that the role of Go-To was
shared by L. Radley Flynn and Donald Harris. (Thanks to
David Sommerfield for pointing this out.)
- Added the Price-Less cassette
re-issue of the 1949 Pirates.
- Added the Pro Arte CD re-issues
of the 1929 Yeomen,
1930 Pinafore and
1929 Iolanthe.
David Sommerfield also pointed out some problems with the Yeomen,
which are mentioned on the web page.
- Added the Arabesque re-issue of
the 1936 Mikado.
Unlike the Pro Arte re-issue, the "n-----" word is not edited out.
- Added cast information to the
G&S For All Trial By Jury,
which was previously missing. (David Sommerfield filled this in for me.)
- Added cast information to the
Pearl/Cheam Operatic Society Grand
Duke, which was previously missing.
(Seth Schneider filled this in for me.)
- Added comments from the recent SavoyNet discussions
of the 1955 Ida,
1965 Ida and
ENO Mikado. The
Ida ratings have been adjusted.
- Added comments from
David Sommerfield about
the D'Oyly Carte monaural recordings.
In particular, David pointed out a nasty splice in the
1949 Pinafore that I had not
previously noticed.
- Moved the date of the
Lyric Theater Company Utopia
from 1970s to 1963. (Though issued by Pearl in the 1970s, this recording
had been privately issued in 1963.)
- Added the name of the actor playing Tarara, which had
been previously missing, to the
Lyric Theater Company Utopia
and the
1976 D'Oyly Carte Utopia.
- Corrected the cast list for the
New D'Oyly Carte Pirates,
where the singers for the Pirate King and the Major-General had been
reversed.
- Changed the background from a GIF graphic to a
solid color. This should eliminate 23K worth of download time, and
perhaps eliminate occasional crashes that some readers have reported.
- Eliminated the
BASE
attribute from all the pages, which was causing me more trouble than
it was worth.
- The title graphics are in a new font.
- Every version from now on will have a date.
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Version 1.1 — December 30, 1995 (136 pages)
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Added this version history page. Re-published all pages to
include
HEIGHT and WIDTH
for all graphics. Changed the contact email address to
my address at cris.com.
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Added information based on user comments to the following pages:
- Also, made some minor corrections on the Chronological Index.
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Version 1.0a — December 27, 1995 (135 pages)
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Corrected a silly mistake on the home page: the launch date of this
site was the 124th anniversary of the premiere of Thespis,
not the 125th.
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Version 1.0 — December 26, 1995 (135 pages)
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Initial release.
