Saturday, May 7, 2022

Oh, You Meiser!

I like the cover of the 45 rpm EP of Basil Rathbone's "A Christmas Carol" recording for Columbia Records:


I think the cover was done specifically for this release (early 1950s?) rather than it just being another version of the original 78 rpm album cover, which was this:



The original LP issue from 1949 (which added the carols from the Lyn Murray singers to extend the run time) did rework the 78 rpm album cover in a not overly exciting manner:




Oh, and I hadn't thought of it before, but I'm presuming that Edith Meiser, who did the adaptation for the recording, pronounced her last name like "miser."

It takes one to know one!

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