My LP Collection

Some many years ago, boxes of assorted vinyls were passed onto me. It was mix of Gramophones, Hugophones, Graphophone 80, 10inch 33 1/3 & 78 and 7inch 45's. I'm not an owner of a turntable of any sort, so I never had the opportunity to play them. Some of the labels on the 7" & one of the 10" have stirred my interest, being stamped...Sample Record - Not For Sale, Release Date, "Audition Record" and also having a signed label. I am totally clueless when it comes to music & vinyls, I've searched many hours on the net, resulting in very little insight on what I have in my procession. This is why I have created this blog to display my collection and hoping an expert will give their honest opinion...good or bad. And hopefully in the progress, I'll become more savvy in this area and having me searching opportunity shops & garage sales to help bring sort after LP's to collector's hands.

Over time, I will upload the 100+ LP's.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Amelita Galli-Curci - Tito Schipa

Side 1. - Son geloso del zeffiro errante

http://www.allmusic.com/performance/la-sonnambula-opera--ison-geloso-del-zefiro-errante-i-f982014

Side 2. - Al talor del tou pensiero

Amelita Galli-Curci

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/amelita-galli-curci-q25006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelita_Galli-Curci

BIRTH NAME: Amelita Galli

BIRTH & DEATH: 18 November 1882 – 26 November 1963

NATIONALITY: Italian and Spanish

CHILDHOOD UP BRINGING: Born into an upper-middle class family in Milan, Italy. She was inspired to sing by her grandmother. Operatic composer Petro Mascagni

FIRST PERFORMIST: Galli-Curci made her operatic debut in 1906 at Trani

TYPE OF PERFORMER/ARTIST: An Italian Operatic Soprano

Tito Schipa

http://www.titoschipa.it/biosrengl.htm

http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/cronicas/schipa.html

BIRTH NAME: Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa

(only later he will be given the nickname "Tito", which in local dialect means "tiny short man")

BIRTH & DEATH: 27 December 1888 – 16 December 1965

A family created website states: Born in Lecce in the very last days of 1888

(his birthday was recorded as January 2, 1889 for military conscription purposes)

NATIONALITY: Italian

CHILDHOOD UP BRINGING: Fourth child in a modest family (his father Luigi is a custom officer) in the working-class neighbourhood called Le Scalze

FIRST PERFORMIST: February 4 1909: in a foggy night in Vercelli, the young Tito Schipa made his "debutto" in La Traviata, paying 50 Lira for the chance.

TYPE OF PERFORMER/ARTIST: An Italian Tenor

Vinyls of Days Gone By

My LP Collection

Saturday, September 24, 2011