G&S Discography Revision History

February 9 — March 15, 1997

Version 9.1 — March 15, 1997 (331 pages)

• Added the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society's re-issues of the 1907 Pathé Yeomen and 1931 HMV Yeomen. Thanks to Stan DeOrsey.
• Added two Decca boxed sets: one of them containing the 1960 Pinafore, the 1968 Pirates and the 1960 Iolanthe (six discs); the other containing the 1961 Gondoliers, the 1958 Mikado, and the 1964 Yeomen (also six discs). Thanks to Chris Webster.
• Added quite a few highlights discs and re-issues from the 1950s mono sets, including extensive coverage of re-issues on 45rpm discs. Thanks to Stan DeOrsey and Chris Webster, whose complementary lists reached me, coincidentally, on the same day in late February.
• Added Stan DeOrsey's comments to the Groucho Marx Mikado.
• Added J. Donald Smith's comments to the instrumental highlights disc, Gilbert & Sullivan for Orchestra (Eric Johnson, cond.).
• Added a new instrumental highlights disc, Gilbert and Sullivan Favorites (Stanford Robinson, cond.), dating from the early 1950s. (Thanks to J. Donald Smith and Tim Devlin.)
• Filled in the missing names of the First through Fourth Yeomen on the New D'Oyly Carte Yeomen, thanks to the D'OC's musical director, John Owen Edwards.
• Added a review of Nelson Eddy's Patter Songs of Gilbert and Sullivan. (Thanks to Dean Wall for sending me a copy.)
• The G&S Solo Recitals page has been split onto multiple pages.
• Added a significant number of names to the Artist Index that were previously missing, particularly those whose only G&S recordings were on "miscellaneous items".

Version 9.0 — March 4, 1997 (327 pages)

• Changed the background gif on the home page and artist index pages.
• The artist index has been reorganized, with the main and detailed sections merged into one consolidated index. The index is also spread over more pages, to reduce download times for any given page.
• The site is now rated with the Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC). Parents can now rest easy that this site contains no sex, nudity, violence, or strong language or any kind.
• META tags have been added to each page. Though invisible to the reader, these will improve how the site is indexed by search engines.
• Validated all pages with Spyglass's HTML Validator, and fixed a number of errors that it found.
• Changed HTML editors, jetisoning Sausage Software's HotDog and adopting Bradbury Software's HomeSite 2.5a. There's no visible difference the reader, except that some files have new names, now that we have an editor that supports long file names.

Version 8.2 — February 17, 1997 (327 pages)

• Added the four abridged sets released on the Columbia label in 1930-31: The Mikado, The Gondoliers, The Yeomen of the Guard and Iolanthe.
• Added reviews by J. Donald Smith to Waltzing to Gilbert and Sullivan and The Cool Mikado.

Version 8.1 — February 16, 1997 (313 pages)

• Split the miscellaneous index into multiple pages.
• Added links from all the individual operas' pages to the corresponding pages in Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. (Links to the archive's libretti were there previously, but these were out-of-date.)
• Corrected the dating of the CD re-issues of the D'Oyly Carte stereo recordings, and added a number of LP re-issues from the 1980s. (Thanks to Ian Bond.)
• Added a vast number of items, with reviews, courtesy of Chris Webster:
  • The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan, Volume 2 [Linden Singers, 1962].
  • Gilbert and Sullivan For All [Concerted Selections, 1969].
  • Songs and Snatches [D'Oyly Carte, 1970].
  • Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular [English Chorale/Dods, 1974].
  • We've Got a Little List [Savoy Singers, 1989].
  • Karaoke Gilbert and Sullivan [Holst Singers, 1993]
  • Melodies of Gilbert and Sullivan Operas [Harry Davidson and his Orch., 1950s]
  • Waltzing to Gilbert and Sullivan [Philip Green & His Orch., 1960]
  • "In the D'Oyley Cart" [Flanders & Swann].
  • The Tailors of Poznance [Goldberg and Solomon].
  • Bab Ballads and Cautionary Verses [Caedmon, 1959].
  • A Musical Portrait of Gilbert and Sullivan [Mastersound Studios, 1992].
  • A whole bunch of compilations from the D'Oyly Carte sets, too numerous to list individually.

Version 8.0 — February 9, 1997 (301 pages)

• Redid all of the issue format symbols, adding new symbols for 78rpm, 45rpm, film, videocassette, laserdisc and radio broadcast formats.

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