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[William F. Orr]

What is in my CD player?  Well, actually it is the Japanese OC of Wicked, but I just finished it and haven't replaced it with the next one up, which is the Dutch OC of Les Misérables.  Not that I understand a word of either language, but this is my personal mania.

It all started with Alice in Wonderland fifty years ago.  I have maybe a dozen translations, including Nabokov's Russian version, two different Japanese versions, a shortened retelling in Farsi (a gift from an Iranian student from back when they were our friends.  I don't have the Australian Aboriginal version which has Alice in the Dreamtime.

But I have both Esperanto translations, the first of which was published in 1910 and I had to have rebound.

So that's how my descent into madness began.

[William F. Orr]

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[William F. Orr]

I finally got to do that.  Whoopie!

[William F. Orr]

Moving right along, then I somehow started on The Little Prince, but I just have a few: English, French, Esperanto, and--joy of joys!--when our cruise ship stopped at Aruba, I wondered off the tourist track and found a little bookshop that had it in Papamientu!

I didn't even know what Papamientu was at the time, aso I picked up a grammar too.  It's a Pidgin of Dutch and Portuguese, if you can imagine.

[William F. Orr]

But my collections are nothing.  Check out Translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Wikipedia.

[Michael]

Good morning to all.

[Michael]

THE BATES MOTEL was an unsold television pilot.

[Michael]

I was perhaps 5 or 6 when it aired on tv (NBC night at the movies?). I had no idea what was going to happen. I went screaming out of the living room after the shower scene and had nightmares for the next couple of nights.

[Jrand74]

Psycho is scarier than a LOT of scary movies released nowadays......

[Jrand74]

THE CARDINAL has arrived in Indiana.

[Jane]

Still awake.  I have not crashed yet.

Sorry.  I did fall asleep, and fell right back to sleep every time I woke up.

[Jane]

I managed to get a little over 6 hours of sleep.

[Jane]

If I am going to buy a place, damn it, I want what I want.

Absolutely.

[Jane]

The cats and I got about nine hours of sleep, so we have no complaints this morning.

Heavenly.

[Jane]

The funeral for Rob Berman's father is tomorrow/  I wish I could attend but I am meeting a friend from out of town, and it's an important meeting.

Here's the information on Howard Berman:
https://www.sollevinson.com/notice.php?id=30813

Maryland is a bit far to go unless you had a ride.

[William F. Orr]

Continuing the drama of my obsession, it began to apply to vinyl back in the sixties.  Anyone remember the Schwann Catalog?  You could get just about any record with a 15% discount, and I began blowing my meager budget on musicals, but specifically on foreign casts of My Fair Lady.

And I didn't even have a phonograph!  I used my roommate's.

The Mexican cast has Placido Domingo--in the chorus.  The German translation of the lyrics is wonderful.  I know because when I was in Germany a decade later I found the entire libretto in paperback.

There were two Israeli cast recordings, one in Hebrew and one in Yiddish, both with Bomba J. Zur as Higgins.

I also have Fiddler on the Roof in both languages.

[Jane]

Moving right along, then I somehow started on The Little Prince, but I just have a few: English, French, Esperanto, and--joy of joys!--when our cruise ship stopped at Aruba, I wondered off the tourist track and found a little bookshop that had it in Papamientu!

I didn't even know what Papamientu was at the time, aso I picked up a grammar too.  It's a Pidgin of Dutch and Portuguese, if you can imagine.

 

[Jane]

I was perhaps 5 or 6 when it aired on tv (NBC night at the movies?). I had no idea what was going to happen. I went screaming out of the living room after the shower scene and had nightmares for the next couple of nights.

Poor thing.  Of course you probably should have been in bed to begin with.

[Jane]

DR WFO you have an interesting collection.

[ChasSmith]

Continuing the drama of my obsession, it began to apply to vinyl back in the sixties.  Anyone remember the Schwann Catalog?  You could get just about any record with a 15% discount, and I began blowing my meager budget on musicals, but specifically on foreign casts of My Fair Lady.

And I didn't even have a phonograph!  I used my roommate's.

The Mexican cast has Placido Domingo--in the chorus.  The German translation of the lyrics is wonderful.  I know because when I was in Germany a decade later I found the entire libretto in paperback.

There were two Israeli cast recordings, one in Hebrew and one in Yiddish, both with Bomba J. Zur as Higgins.

I also have Fiddler on the Roof in both languages.

Yes!  I remember the evening. in one of our nice department store record departments, that I bought my first Schwann. I can't say what year it would have been, but somewhere in 1963-1965. I think I asked the clerk about it and bought it on the spot, and I was soon buying them every month throughout high school and college years. The brilliant thing about Schwann was that it not only told you what was available and new and going out of print, but the organization and accuracy of composers and works was second to none. I only have three or four issues left, which I retained partly for the purpose of modeling my own (as yet unfinished) record collection database on it. And I still find reason to look something up in one now and then.

[ChasSmith]

The Schwanns are a monument to what an incredible world it was that we took for granted.

And in a less high-falutin' comment, I must say I greatly admire and am a bit envious of your foreign language collection. I only ever bought MI BELLA DAMA, and maybe one or two other shows I can't even think of now. I still have that LP, and was actually chagrined to discover not that long ago that it had been available in stereo as well as mono which is what I'd found in a record store in the Lincoln Road Mall (Miami Beach) shortly after we'd seen the film version in its roadshow engagement down there.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

I want a Schwann’s catalog. Now.

[KevinH]

Hello all!

[George]

Well, it’s Friday.

And we SPRING FORWARD this weekend, let us not forget.

Oh!  I forgot.  I hope an announcement is made at the play for the actors...if it hasn't already been done!

[George]

Continuing the drama of my obsession, it began to apply to vinyl back in the sixties.  Anyone remember the Schwann Catalog?  You could get just about any record with a 15% discount, and I began blowing my meager budget on musicals, but specifically on foreign casts of My Fair Lady.

And I didn't even have a phonograph!  I used my roommate's.

The Mexican cast has Placido Domingo--in the chorus.  The German translation of the lyrics is wonderful.  I know because when I was in Germany a decade later I found the entire libretto in paperback.

There were two Israeli cast recordings, one in Hebrew and one in Yiddish, both with Bomba J. Zur as Higgins.

I also have Fiddler on the Roof in both languages.

Yes!  I remember the evening. in one of our nice department store record departments, that I bought my first Schwann. I can't say what year it would have been, but somewhere in 1963-1965. I think I asked the clerk about it and bought it on the spot, and I was soon buying them every month throughout high school and college years. The brilliant thing about Schwann was that it not only told you what was available and new and going out of print, but the organization and accuracy of composers and works was second to none. I only have three or four issues left, which I retained partly for the purpose of modeling my own (as yet unfinished) record collection database on it. And I still find reason to look something up in one now and then.

I work for a library and I remember Schwann's catalog (not to be confused with Schwan's Home Service).  Have either of you (or anyone else) heard of CastAlbums.org?  You create your own profile and can list whatever musical theater (but not operas or movie soundtracks that aren't movie musicals, or things like that) or related recordings that you own or want to own.  I've been keeping track of (some of) my recordings, and have even added listings of things that weren't there yet, like several Kritzerland recordings.  And if you're looking to buy something, many of them have links to different websites to purchase items.

[George]

THE BATES MOTEL was an unsold television pilot.

Interesting.  That show was in 1987.  Eventually, there was a TV series called Bates Motel from 2013-2017 with Freddie Highmore, who is now the lead in The Good Doctor.

[George]

I finally got to do that.  Whoopie!

Congrats, William!  It's all in the timing!

[George]

I've been wondering how much and by whom Judge T.S. Ellis III was paid to let Paul Manafort off the hook.

I'd read that Manafort was probably going to get an easy deal from Mueller because Mueller is really working to get a better case to go after bigger fish, if you know what I mean...and I think that you do.

[George]

The funeral for Rob Berman's father is tomorrow/  I wish I could attend but I am meeting a friend from out of town, and it's an important meeting.

Here's the information on Howard Berman:
https://www.sollevinson.com/notice.php?id=30813

Very nice.