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Re: [ARSCLIST] The David Hummel Collection or "Donate your A.L. Webber Lps to an archive now!
What on earth would motivate someone to buy five copies of "Damn Yankees"
,or three copies of "Brigadoon"? As for what I have,I have to look.
Roger Kulp
David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I probably have 5 copies of Damn Yankees. Hope one of them will be good,
but each one is probably better in different areas. When I did the Naxos
issue of Brigadoon, I worked from 3 LP copies and a 45 set. Ya never
know. Anyway, got a list? Off-list if you like. I'm looking for some
pretty obscure items myself, like 'Clara' (had it, taped it, sold it,
regretted it).
dl
Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
> Yeah,but what if you got a bunch of "too obscure to be saleable" OC Lp-s ? Would they want them ? I have a pile I would like to see get a good home.
>
> Roger Kulp
> Steve Ramm wrote:
>
> Someone JUST sent me this from back in June. Thought I'd share if you hadn't
> seen.
>
> Problem is that- based on this article - folks are going to want to donate
> their copies of "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Damn Yankees" to the Library of
> Congress!
>
> Steve Ramm
>
>
> Record-Eagle com 06/09/2006
>
>
> A little something extra from the extra
> Man donates his renowned library of recordings
> BY BOB DARROW
> _bdarrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:bdarrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> Record-Eagle/Douglas Tesner
> Just a portion of David Hummelâ??s huge recording collection is pictured here.
> TRAVERSE CITY â?? If walls could talk, David Hummel's would sing show tunes.
> If walls could breathe, they'd gasp for air in Hummel's Traverse City home,
> where the rooms are lined with shelves jammed with a vast collection of
> American musicals performed during the last half-century.
> Six thousand record albums. Thirty-five hundred compact discs. Five thousand
> tapes, on both reel and cassette.
> Hundreds of reference books, including one Hummel authored himself. Thousands
> of playbills from Broadway shows.
> "I had to have everything show-related," said Hummel, a former recording
> engineer and consultant who recently decided to give it all away.
> By Tuesday afternoon, it'll all be gone, donated to the Library of Congress â??
> from recordings of hits like "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Damn Yankees," to
> obscure flops like the Gene Kelly-produced "Clownaround," that sit amid
> stacks that wrap around corners and into bedrooms.
> It's simply not enough to call Hummel a collector or hobbyist. It's more of a
> way of life for someone who acted as an extra in musical productions in the
> 1950s. So keen is his passion that a curator at America's official library
> calls him a "highly-recognized expert."
> Musical composer Stephen Sondheim, whose credits include classics like "West
> Side Story" and "Sweeney Todd," characterized Hummel's recordings collection
> as "perhaps the most complete and accurate catalog of the American musical
> theater currently, or perhaps ever, in existence."
> Hummel never had his musical cache appraised. He intended to donate the
> recordings to the Library of Congress upon his death, but recently moved up the
> giveaway date.
> "I just decided I'd like to see it happen," Hummel, 71, said. "I'm not really
> listening to it that much anymore."
> On Tuesday Denoyer Brothers Moving & Storage will come to Hummel's home,
> carefully box his thousands of recordings and send them to a Washington, D.C.
> storage facility.
> >From there, the collection eventually will make its way to the Library of
> Congress' new state-of-the-art National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in
> Culpeper, Va. The records will be digitized so researchers can listen to them
> remotely.
> Not only did the Library of Congress accept Hummel's donation â?? now
> officially referred to as the "David G. Hummel American Musical Theatre Collection" â??
> the staff is excited to have it, said Librarian of Congress James
> Billington, who in a letter thanked Hummel on behalf of the nation.
> It's not often the library receives so complete a collection from an expert
> in his field, said Mary Bucknum, the library's sound-recording curator.
> "Mr. Hummel's collection is quite spectacular," Bucknum said. "He's giving us
> many unique pieces we didn't already have."
> Of particular value is Hummel's collection of bootleg recordings of Broadway
> performances, often made by someone with a tape recorder in the first row.
> Many of those recordings are the lone copies in existence; some composers asked
> Hummel to send them copies of shows even they don't possess.
> Hummel owns nearly every LP related to musical comedy ever produced, and
> amassed the collection sifting through mom-and-pop record stores around the
> state and nation.
> "Back in the day, going through the bins was so much fun. It was amazing the
> stuff you would find," he said. "Winning a bid on eBay just doesn't
> compare."
> Hummel lost interest in collecting as Broadway began to cater to more
> serious, elaborate productions.
> "The fun went out of it," he said.
> But there is one current Broadway hit he'd like to see: "The Drowsy
> Chaperone," an old-fashioned comedy about a die-hard musical fan and his record
> collection.
> That one, Hummel said, sounds right up his alley.
>
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