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Thread #171132   Message #4138817
Posted By: Thomas Stern
11-Apr-22 - 10:28 PM
Thread Name: Info: Wallace House (NYU prof & Folkways Artist)
Subject: RE: Info: Wallace House (NYU prof & Folkways Artist)
Always eager to widen the discussion.

The ASCH (78rpm) album is available on the Internet Archive:
   Wallace House - Songs of the United Nations

In the 1950's one of the albums we enjoyed was his ENGLISH FOLK SONGS,
wonderful dialect performances.

He also recorded the legendary Marriott Edgar monologues (Albert and the Lion, Sam Small eetc.) which were made famous in 1920/30's recordings by Stanley Holloway - these were available in the USA on
an Angel (65019) LP, so overshadowed House's album.

Perhaps those who own the Folkways albums can supply catalog numbers -
Folkways started c.1948 issued some early albums on 78rpm as well as
mostly 10-inch LP, with an FP XX or xxx number. After some years the catalog was re-arranged with prefixes to indicate the type of music, and the numbers expanded to 4 digits.
When SCHOLASTIC took over the label, the prefix was changed from Fx
to Sx.
In addition, some albums were issued as ASCH, with a change of the prefix to Ax.
In the list below I give the various numbers I am aware of - if anyone has these albums with different numbers, please provide the information. THANKS!

1952/1960 FP 823    FP/FW 6823             ENGLISH FOLK SONGS
1953       FP 839    FW 6839                ROBIN HOOD BALLADS
1853       FP 48-1/FP 48-2   FP 5001
          SH 2151/2152   FH/SA 2151   BALLADS OF THE REVOLUTION
1954       FP 99    FL 9899               
SAM SMALL, ALBERT RAMSBOTTOM and Uthers-English Dialect Stories
1954 FP 48-3/FP 48-4   FP 5002   
      FA 2164   BALLADS OF THE WAR OF 1812, 1791-1836
1956 FP 3002   IRISH SONGS OF RESISTANCE- The Great Rebellion
1956 SP 8110 Sounds of Spoken English: English Speech Instruction
1958 FH 5710 The Patriot Plan: Growth of Human Rights in Colonial
               America
1958 FL/SL 9750   READINGS FROM WALT WHITMAN
1970 FL 9110, AH 9110    UNDERSTANDING & APPRECIATION OF THE ESSAY
                            by Morris Schreiber

Additions, corrections ?????

Thomas.