Unfortunately I missed Mara Tapp's broadcast about "Tubby the Tuba."
My loss, I'm sure. I know of the first (perhaps) recording of the work
(story by Paul Tripp, music by George Kleinsinger) for Columbia Records
-- Victor Jory, narrator, with an orchestra conducted by Leon Barzin.
1940s, probably. The recording probably had various incarnations and
perhaps even began on 78s; I own it on Columbia LP CL 671, which survived
in the catalogue until the 1960s. Perhaps because it was coupled with
Peter and the Wolf with Basil Rathbone, conducted by Stokowski: a popular
title and famous recording of it, at least for a long while, and
something that might have caused the record to sell well enough to
justify its retention in the catalogue.

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For that, the CSO's management decided to completely remove anything
relating to the broadcasts from WFMT -- except for one thing, to be
explained below --and brought in NPR people, and an NPR recording crew, to
engineer the recordings of concerts and produce and narrate them. CSO
broadcasts are now being produced by people from NPR.

For me, at least, that's not an improvement. I am highly suspicious of NPR's
apparent desire to proclaim itself The One True Keeper Of Classical Music in
the United States.

Hmm. When I was in Chicago, WBEZ had nothing to do with classical
music -- they fancied themselves the Keepers of Jazz. Of course in
those days there were three, and then two, classical FM stations.

Yes, WBEZ still has nothing to do with classical music. They dropped
the 8 PM-5 AM jazz programming four or five years ago, and now play
news and "public affairs" programming during that time. Much of it is
rebroadcasts of what they'd played earlier in the day. A few of the
NPR classical music-oriented things WBEZ didn't want have been
broadcast on WFMT, but only a few.

(I'll always remember the time Mara Tapp had a tubist during
Northwestern's Tuba Festival and mocked "Tubby the Tuba." BTW does
anyone know of a recording of the full work? I looked for it for years
after that interview, and all I've ever been able to find is a pop-
song-length version featuring Danny Kaye rather than the tuba. The
Schwann Catalog used to list a French recording paired with Poulenc's
Babar, but it was on a label that couldn't be gotten.)

Unfortunately I missed Mara Tapp's broadcast about "Tubby the Tuba."
My loss, I'm sure. I know of the first (perhaps) recording of the work
(story by Paul Tripp, music by George Kleinsinger) for Columbia
Records -- Victor Jory, narrator, with an orchestra conducted by Leon
Barzin. 1940s, probably. The recording probably had various
incarnations and perhaps even began on 78s; I own it on Columbia LP CL
671, which survived in the catalogue until the 1960s. Perhaps because
it was coupled with Peter and the Wolf with Basil Rathbone, conducted
by Stokowski: a popular title and famous recording of it, at least for
a long while, and something that might have caused the record to sell
well enough to justify its retention in the catalogue.

But not its CD rerelease ...

Details about that?

I assume that if you had any, you'd have given them!

I suppose it might be possible that some pirater might have included
it by accident on a Stokowski disk. But those probably wouldn't be in
retail catalogs anyway.

  But your message indicated that there had been a CD re-release. I
indicated that I didn't know about it. I stated that I had no details
(it's in my message). That's why I asked you for details about it. I'd
like to know about it.

  Please: how could I post any details about something I'd honestly
said I knew nothing about, and about which I was asking you for help?

  Best wishes.

incarnations and perhaps even began on 78s; I own it on Columbia LP CL
671, which survived in the catalogue until the 1960s. Perhaps because
it was coupled with Peter and the Wolf with Basil Rathbone, conducted
by Stokowski: a popular title and famous recording of it, at least for
a long while, and something that might have caused the record to sell
well enough to justify its retention in the catalogue.
But not its CD rerelease ...
� Details about that?
I assume that if you had any, you'd have given them!

I suppose it might be possible that some pirater might have included
it by accident on a Stokowski disk. But those probably wouldn't be in
retail catalogs anyway.

But your message indicated that there had been a CD re-release. I
indicated that I didn't know about it. I stated that I had no details
(it's in my message). That's why I asked you for details about it. I'd
like to know about it.

Please: how could I post any details about something I'd honestly
said I knew nothing about, and about which I was asking you for help?

Best wishes.

Don Tait

Dontaitchic... at (no spam) aol.com wrote:
incarnations and perhaps even began on 78s; I own it on Columbia LP CL
671, which survived in the catalogue until the 1960s. Perhaps because
it was coupled with Peter and the Wolf with Basil Rathbone, conducted
by Stokowski: a popular title and famous recording of it, at least for
a long while, and something that might have caused the record to sell
well enough to justify its retention in the catalogue.
But not its CD rerelease ...
Details about that?
I assume that if you had any, you'd have given them!

I suppose it might be possible that some pirater might have included
it by accident on a Stokowski disk. But those probably wouldn't be in
retail catalogs anyway.

  But your message indicated that there had been a CD re-release. I
indicated that I didn't know about it. I stated that I had no details
(it's in my message). That's why I asked you for details about it. I'd
like to know about it.

  Please: how could I post any details about something I'd honestly
said I knew nothing about, and about which I was asking you for help?

  Best wishes.

  Don Tait

I take "But not its CD rerelease..." to mean it wasn't popular or
famous enough to get a CD release, period.