I had this in my vinyl days. This was a strange period for Bluebird. Until the LP era, it was RCA’s primary Jazz Label. Then it was a classical budget label for RCA, usually issuing material licensed from smaller labels (for example, a famous recording by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, featuring a very young Jon Vickers, and conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan of Handel’s Messiah, issued on the Beaver Label in Canada. Yes, we do laugh at the double entendre of the Beaver up here!). By the late ’60’s, Bluebird was once again a Jazz label.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I had this in my vinyl days. This was a strange period for Bluebird. Until the LP era, it was RCA’s primary Jazz Label. Then it was a classical budget label for RCA, usually issuing material licensed from smaller labels (for example, a famous recording by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, featuring a very young Jon Vickers, and conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan of Handel’s Messiah, issued on the Beaver Label in Canada. Yes, we do laugh at the double entendre of the Beaver up here!). By the late ’60’s, Bluebird was once again a Jazz label.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:06 am
The original! “A time for longing and yearning.” I’d bust a kappa kappa kappa for this one any day…