G&S Discography Revision History
December 24, 1997 - February 9, 1998
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Version 12.22 — February 9, 1998 (418 pages)
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Version 12.21 — February 3, 1998 (418 pages)
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Fixed a number of typos and other errors from yesterday's update.
(Thanks to J. Donald Smith and Bruce Miller.)
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Added some additional comments from Bruce Miller to the
Russell Hunting Company Pinafore.
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Version 12.2 — February 2, 1998 (418 pages)
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A number of matrix number discrepancies in the
electrical sets have been noted,
and some mistyped matrix numbers fixed,
thanks to Chris Webster. See especially:
1930 Pinafore,
1929 Pirates,
1927 Gondoliers.
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The dating of many issues of the electrical sets has been
fixed, thanks to detailed input from Chris Webster and Bruce Miller.
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Added album cover scans sent by Chris Webster for:
John Reed: I Have a Song to Sing, O,
1917 Mikado,
1922 Iolanthe,
1919 Gondoliers,
1921 Patience,
1920 Pirates,
1924 Ruddigore,
and 1920 Yeomen.
Also, added a picture of an Edison Cylinder Phonograph
to the Russell Hunting Company Pinafore,
and a photo of Martyn Green from the
1939 Mikado film.
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Added detailed comments from Bruce Miller on the Victor issue
histories of the 1917 Mikado
and the 1922 Pinafore.
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Added a recording, Gems from The Mikado,
by the Civic Light Opera Company, which was issued on an early kind
of long-playing records. (Thanks to Bruce Miller.)
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Added comments from Bruce Miller, and updated the issue history,
for the Russell Hunting Company Pinafore.
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Added a new page explaining side couplings
of the 78rpm sets.
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Performed a large fix-up job on the dating and issue histories
of the D'Oyly Carte monaural sets.
Thanks for Dan Aron for prompting me to do this.
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Added Geoff Dixon's comments to the
Michael Sammes Mikado
and Gondoliers.
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Added a new supplier to the
Video Sources page,
Videoflicks [page discontinued].
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Added Peter Parker's amazingly detailed review of the
many versions of the
Brent Walker Yeomen.
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Added Fred Judkins's comments to the BBC Gondoliers.
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Added Stan DeOrsey's comments to the Geoffrey Shovelton et al
highlights cassette, The Best of G&S.
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Added detailed listings to the vintage re-issues
The Hey-Day of Gilbert & Sullivan and
The Very Best of Gilbert & Sullivan.
(Thanks to Stan DeOrsey.)
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Added the Pro Arte release of H.M.S. Gilbert
& Sullivan. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
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Added details of the 78rpm issue of
Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye. (Thanks
to Bob Lang.)
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Added a 1950s instrumental highlights
album by the "Europa Symphony Orchestra." (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
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Added yet another issue of the ubiquitous
Allegro Royale Mikado,
Allegro #1623. (Thanks to Bob Lang.)
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Version 12.1 — January 15, 1998 (414 pages)
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Version 12.03 — January 9, 1998 (414 pages)
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Modified all pages with the blue border at the left so that
they will display properly on 640 x 480 monitors.
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Expanded the early issue history of the Groucho
Marx Mikado. Thanks to Bruce Miller and Tom Shepard.
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Added http://www.amazon.com/
to the video sources page and
recordings sources page [pages discontinued]. Everyone thinks of them
as a bookstore, but they have a decent selection of audios and videos, too.
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Version 12.02 — January 6, 1998 (414 pages)
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This is another primarily fix-up release. Thanks to Stan DeOrsey,
Bob Lang, Bruce Miller, and J. Donald Smith for pointing out my
too-numerous mistakes. Other changes are as follows:
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Added Dan Aron's comments to the 1966 Mikado.
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Moved the discussion of Lloyd Harris's
W. S. Gilbert: A Musical Biography
from the Derivative Works section to
the Solo Recitals section, where it more
accurately belongs. Also, added a couple of cross-references from
this page to the Sullivan section.
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Added to the discussions of
Pineapple Poll,
Sullivan's cello concerto, and
the Mackerras Telarc series
based on a recent interview with Sir Charles published on
Savoynet.
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Added scanned album covers to:
1925 Ida,
1955 Ida,
1965 Ida,
1907 Odeon Mikado,
1926 Mikado,
1950 Mikado,
1958 Mikado,
1973 Mikado,
Sargent/EMI Mikado,
Groucho Marx Mikado, and
G&S For All Pirates.
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Made technical changes to the implementation of the
home page so that it would display
on 640 x 460 monitors without requiring horizontal scrolling.
If these changes are successful, they will be applied to all
other pages having this problem in a future release.
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Version 12.01 — December 30, 1997 (413 pages)
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This is mainly a fix-up release to correct a number of typos and
broken links. Thanks to Stan DeOrsey,
Marc Kenig, and Chris Webster for catching my errors.
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In addition, Chris Webster found a number of instances of alternate
takes that were included in some copies of the vintage D'Oyly Carte
sets. See, in particular,
the 1917 Mikado,
1919 Gondoliers,
1920 Yeomen,
1921 Patience, and
1931 Yeomen.
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I've added some additional background to the
Essgee Pirates.
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It is also worth noting that some recordings have been redated.
Two years ago, when I launched the site, I decided to date recordings
based on when they were first publication. I have since concluded
that the date of recording, where known, is more useful.
The following recordings are affected:
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Version 12.0 — December 24, 1997 (413 pages)
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The Sullivan Section of the Discography
is now open for business. It has actually been there, "under construction,"
for a number of months, but it is now officially part of the site.
This section is devoted to recordings of Sullivan's non-operatic music.
In addition, every Sullivan composition is listed, even if it has never
been recorded.
Please note: there are some recordings that belong here that I haven't
yet had the chance to add, including quite a few that people have emailed
me about. Rest assured that all these emails are in a "to do" folder and
will be dealt with in time.
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Significantly expanded issue histories and recording details for all
recordings that were originally issued on 78rpm records. (This includes D'Oyly
Carte sets recorded up to about 1950.) Many of these were issued in a variety
of formats that were previously not listed. In addition, the matrix numbers,
recording dates (where known) and contents of each side are shown.
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Added Charles Schlotter's humorous
Thespis Discography.
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Added scanned LP album cover shots for most recordings of
Pinafore,
Pirates,
Patience,
Iolanthe that
have ever appeared in that format.
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Added a number of G&S television productions. My policy is that, as
G&S productions have been so rarely televised, every television
production is relevent—even though many of them have never been available
on home video, and some are no longer even extant:
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Added the 1926 D'Oyly Carte Mikado film.
(Thanks to Peter Parker.)
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Added a copy of the lyrics of
Flanders & Swann's "In the D'Oyly Cart".
(Thanks to Arthur Robinson.)
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Added two G&S excerpts sets from the acoustical era,
the 1907 HMV Gondoliers and
the 1908 HMV Pinafore.
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Added or expanded cast list information for:
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Added a blurb on the pornographic 1970s film
The Naughty Victorians,
which had a G&S soundtrack. (Thanks to David Cantor.)
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Added the following overture discs:
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Added catalog numbers of the Acorn re-issues of the National Musicale
Pinafore,
Pirates, and
Mikado. (Thanks to Rebecca Consentino
and J. Donald Smith.)
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Added informational pages on:
