G&S Discography Revision History
June 16 — October 12, 1996
- Version 5.4 — October 12, 1996 (218 pages)
- Added a recording of El Mikado (in Spanish).
- Added a recording of Pirates from New Zealand.
- Added a BBC broadcast of The Grand Duke from 1989.
- Added a lengthy review of The Black Mikado, courtesy of Terry Lane.
- Added matrix numbers and recording dates to the 1906 Mikado.
- Added the 1996 re-issue of the 1930 Patience and 1932 Ida on the Happy Days label. Also, corrected the dating of the 1996 Romophone re-issue of the 1929 Pirates and 1930 Pinafore. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added casts lists to the 1962 World Record Club Mikado and Gondoliers. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added cassette highlights of the New D'Oyly Carte Yeomen.
- Added an LP highlights disc to the Sargent Mikado and Pinafore. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added a cassette re-issue of the 1958 Mikado. This is the first modern re-issue of this recording that I have found.
- Updated the description of Rollins & Witts to indicate that there were five supplements, not four. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added one new source to the sources page: a detailed discography by John Frances of G&S "complete sets" from the 78rpm era that appeared in the ARSC Journal in 1989.
- Corrections to the dating of the BASF issues of the G&S For All recordings, and a new one of these added for the G&S for All Mikado. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith.)
- Added the cassette issue of Papp's Pirates.
- Version 5.3 — July 12, 1996 (215 pages)
- Added Pinafore and Mikado highlights from 1964 featuring the "National Musicale Company." (I know practically nothing about these recordings, aside from a list of selections.)
- Added a Jazz Interpretation Mikado from 1959.
- Added a Rock Pirates from the early 1970s.
- Added Yiddish versions of Pinafore and Mikado.
- Version 5.2a — July 7, 1996 (209 pages)
- Added the re-issues on the Happy Days label of the 1936 Mikado coupled with the 1930 Pinafore, and the 1929 Pirates coupled with the 1931 Ruddigore.
- Added the 1961 Bell Records disc of highlights from the Allegro-Royale Mikado.
- Version 5.2 — July 3, 1996 (209 pages)
- Added a 1972 recording of Thespis (Rare Recorded Editions, Fulham Light Operatic Society).
- Version 5.1 — June 23, 1996 (207 pages)
- Added recordings of The Mountebanks, Haddon Hall, The Chieftain, The Beauty Stone, The Rose of Persia, and The Emerald Isle.
- Added the 1966 BBC Sorcerer and 1966 BBC Iolanthe. Thanks to Helga Perry.
- Added cast details to the Rare Recorded Editions Ivanhoe. Thanks to Dave Kehs and J. Donald Smith.
- Corrected mis-typed catalog numbers for the CD re-issues of the Sargent Gondoliers and Sargent Mikado. (Thanks to Dave Kehs.)
- Added a note that the Malcolm Sargent in the 1972 Fulham Light Operatic Society Zoo is not the Malcolm Sargent.
- Version 5.0 — June 16, 1996 (198 pages)
- Added two recordings of Sullivan's Ivanhoe. Look for more of the "G without S" and "S without G" operas in the next week or two.
- Started adding references to highlights discs taken from complete recordings. There are too many of these to list here, but look at the issue history sections under the Green Mikado or the 1968 Pirates for examples.
- Added a United Artists Mikado, "the worst G&S recording ever made," according to J. Donald Smith.
- Added a BBC broadcast of Princess Ida from the 1980s conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras. Thanks to Andrew Cooper.
- Added a Pirates with Martyn Green, apparently made shortly after he left D'Oyly Carte in the 1950s. Thanks to J. Donald Smith. (I've since learned that in fact this Pirates does not have Green in it, despite the credits on the record jacket.)
- Added a cassette re-issue of the Al Goodman Pinafore. Added a critique of that recording couresty of Mitchell Orman.
- Changed the dating of the Al Goodman recordings from "1950s" to 1958. Changed the rating of these recordings from "not rated" to "1 star".
- Changed the assignment of the Usher's role in the Mackerras Trial from "unknown" to Eric Garrett.
- Fixed the link to Yahoo's Gilbert and Sullivan page.
- Continued corrections to the dating, ordering and numbering of the Sargent recordings. Added a note that, in the Sargent Mikado, the "n-----" word is retained in Ko-Ko's song, even though it is altered in the Mikado's song.
