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----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Smith" <[log in to unmask]> > What most of us are familiar with of this truly wonderful unique > singer is an RCA LP issued in the fifties. The LP had Houston on one > side and other material on the other side. At a meeting of the NY > Gramaphone society, her accompanist gave a program at which he played > the test pressings of the recordings that RCA didn't put on the LP. > If they had, they would have filled the second side. I wondered at > the time why they were not published. I also have one of the 78s put > out by Liberty Music Store. It's quite different and quite wonderful. > I wish I had the rest of them. It's my understanding that she > committed suicide at about that time. Perhaps someone has more > information. A very sad loss. > There was a "Liberty Music Shop" label in the late thirties and into the forties! They issued British sides. The label is listed in "Record Research," btw...?! Steven C. Barr