Catalog of RCA Victor Records (1948)

Me RCA VICTOR RED SEAL RECORDS MERRILL, ROBERT, Baritone (Continued) DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES Jonson-Old English Air Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Orchestra, H. Leopold Spitalny, Conductor 10" Record No. 10-1218 .75 Hamlet: Act II; CHANSON BACHIQUE (Drinking Song) Thomas Robert Merrill, Baritone, with the RCA Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-9291 1.00 Herodiade: Act II; VISION FUGITIVE (Fleeting Vision) Massenet Robert Merrill, Baritone, with the RCA Victor Orchestra, Jean Paul Morel, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-9291 1.00 HOME ON THE RANGE Guion Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1273 .75 IN THE GLOAMING Orred-Harrison Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Orchestra, H. Leopold Spitalny, Conductor 10" Record No. 10-1218 .75 JUANITA Norton— Traditional Spanish Air Robert AAerr il I , Baritone, with Orchestra, H. Leopold Spitalny, Conductor 10" Record No. 10-1239 .75 LAST ROUND-UP, THE Billy Hill Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1273 .75 MA'BELLE (from "Three Musketeers") Grey-Friml Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Orchestra, H. Leopold Spitalny, Conductor 10" Record No. 10-1239 .75 SWEET LITTLE JESUS BOY MacGimsey Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1303 .75 SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI, THE Stokes-Vernor Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra and Male Chorus 10" Record No. 10-1313 .75 TO MY MOTHER MacGimsey Robert Merrill, Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1303 .75 Traviata, La: Act II; AH! DITE ALLA GIOVINE (Violetta and Germont Duet) Verdi Licia Albanese, Soprano, and Robert Merrill, Baritone, with the RCA Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-9175 1.00 Traviata, La: Act II; IMPONETE (Violetta and Germont Duet) Verdi Licia Albanese, Soprano, and Robert Merrill, Baritone, with the RCA Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-9175 1.00 UP IN CENTRAL PARK CARROUSEL IN THE PARK IT DOESN'T COST YOU ANYTHING TO DREAM CLOSE AS PAGES IN A BOOK THE FIREMAN'S BRIDE THE BIG BACK YARD WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM Fields-Romberg Jeanette MacDonald, Soprano, and Robert Merrill, Bari¬ tone, with Orchestra, Russell Bennett, Conductor Three 10" Records Album No. M-991 3.00 M(10-l 153-10-1 155) WHIFFENPOOF SONG (Baa-Baa-Baa) Minnigerode-Pomeroy-Galloway — Revised by Vallee Robert Merrill. Baritone, with Russ Case and his Orchestra and Male Chorus 10" Record No. 10-1313 .75 MERRIMAN, NAN, Mezzo-soprano If earliest memory serves her correctly. Nan Merriman has lived with but a single purpose — that of someday being a great singing star. Even with full awareness of the hard struggle involved in such a career, her en¬ thusiasm remained undimmed. After graduating from Mount Mercy Academy in Pittsburgh, Miss Merriman moved with her musical family to California. Here she spent four gruelling years — rising at six to practice before commencing the day's office work — evenings given over to vocal lessons, diction and languages. Her musical career got under its official way in 1940, when she won a contest to sing at an Easter Sunrise Service; 30,000 people in Hollywood witnessed this performance which was broadcast to the world and widely televised. The winning of another contest led to her tremendously successful operatic debut with the Cincinnati Opera Company, and from then on to a whirlwind series of operatic and concert activities in that city. In her rise to stardom she also won a nation-wide singing contest sponsored by the National Federa¬ tion of Music Clubs. The outstanding event of Miss Merriman's musical life was meeting Tos¬ canini. It all came about one evening when the Maestro, listening-in to hear the voice that had been compared to Melba's in its prime, decided to arrange an audition for the young American mezzo-soprano. The result was an engagement for an all-Verdi concert and NBC broadcasts of opera under his direction as well as other important performances. Today Nan Merriman's artistic future is assured. AMOR BRUJO, EL (Love, the Magician) Falla Leopold Stokowski and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra with Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano Soloist Three 12" Records Album No. M/,DM-1089 3.85 M(1 1-9393-1 1-9395) DM(1 1-9396-1 1-9398) MERRIMAN, NAN, Mezzo-soprano (Continued) IF I LOVED YOU (from "Carousel") Hammerstein //-Rodgers Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano, and Thomas L. Thomas, Baritone, with Al Goodman and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1174 .75 "JEREMIAH" SYMPHONY Bernstein St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Conductor, with Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano Soloist Three 12" Records Album No. M/DM-1026 3.85 M(1 1-8971 -11 -8973) DM(1 1-8974-1 1-8976) TIME ON MY HANDS, YOU IN MY ARMS Adamson-Gordon-Youmans Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano, with the RCA Victor Orchestra, H. Leo¬ pold Spitalny, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-8813 1.00 WHAT'S THE USE OF WOND'RIN' (from "Carousel") Hammerstein ll-Rodgers Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano, with Al Good¬ man and his Orchestra 10" Record No. 10-1175 .75 YOU AND THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC (from "Revenge with Music") Dietz-Schwartz Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano, with the RCA Victor Or¬ chestra, H. Leopold Spitalny, Conductor 12" Record No. 11-8813 1.00 YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE (from "Carousel") Hammerstein ll-Rodgers Nan Merriman, Mezzo-soprano, and Thomas L. Thomas, Baritone, with Al Goodman and his Orchestra and Chorus 10" Record No. 10-1175 .75 METROPOLITAN OPERA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA ATda: Act I; TEMPLE SCENE Verdi Giovanni Martinelli, Tenor, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8111 1.00 Carmen: Act II; CHANSON DU TOREADOR (Toreador Song) Bizet Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8124 1.00 Carmen: Act II; CHANSON DU TOREADOR (Toreador Song) Bizet In Album M-329 See "Stars of the Metropolitan" (Vol. 1) in Title Section Cavalleria Rusficana: VIVA IL VINO SPUMEGGIANTE (Hail the Red Wine Richly Flowing) (Brindisi) (Drinking Song) Mascagni Beniamino Gigli, Tenor, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Or¬ chestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8222 1.00 Faust: Act II; LE VEAU D'OR (Calf of Gold) Gounod Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 10" Record No. 1753 .75 Favorita, La: Act IV; SPLENDON PIU BELLE (In Heavenly Splendor) Donizetti Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 7552 1.00 Forza del destino, La: Act II; LA VERG1NE DEGLI ANGELI (May Angels Guard Thee) Verdi Rosa Ponselle, Soprano, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8097 1.00 LAWRENCE TIBBETT PROGRAM, A Porgy and Bess: Act II; I GOT PLENTY O' NUTTIN' HeywardIra and George Gershwin GOIN' HOME (Adapted from the Largo of the Symphony "From the New World") Fisher-Dvorak La Tosca: Act I; TE DEUM Puccini The Masked Ball: Act III; ERI TU (Was It Thou?) Verdi Tannhauser: Act III; O DU MEIN HOLDER ABENDSTERN (Evening Star) Wagner ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY Kipling-Speaks Merry Mount: Act I; 'TIS AN EARTH DEFILED Hanson The King's Henchman: Act III; NAY, MACCUS, LAY HIM DOWN Millay Deems Taylor Lawrence Tibbett, Baritone, with Orchestra, Alexander Smallens, Nathaniel Shilkret and Wilfred Pelletier, Conductors, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor Four 12" Records Album No. M-1015 4.85 M(1 1-8860— 1 1 -8862, 11-8932) Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II; CHI Ml FRENA (What Restrains Me?) (Sex¬ tette) Donizetti Amelita Galli-Curci, Soprano; Louise Homer, Contralto; Beniamino Gigli and Angelo Bada, Tenors; Giuseppe de Luca, Baritone, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 10012 3.50 Lucia di Lammermoor: Act IV; GIUSTO CIELO! RISPONDETE (Why Lament Ye?) Donizetti Beniamino Gigli, Tenor, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8096 1.00 Lucia di Lammermoor: Act IV; TU CHE A DIO SPIEGASTI (Thou Hast Spread Thy Wings) Donizetti Beniamino Gigli, Tenor, and Ezio Pinza, Bass, with th» Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8096 1.00 Norma: Act I; CASTA DIVA (Queen of Heaven) Bellini Rosa Ponselle, Soprano, with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orches¬ tra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8125 1.00 Norma: Act III; MIRA, O NORMA (Hear Me, Norma) Bellini Rosa Ponselle, Soprano, and Marion Telva, Contralto, with the Metro¬ politan Opera Orchestra, Giulio Setti, Conductor 12" Record No. 8110 1.00 481