1946 Treasure Island Basil Rathbone 12" 78 RPM 3-Record Album

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1946 Treasure Island Basil Rathbone 12" 78 RPM 3-Record Album Record Grade per VJM Standard: V+ Robert Louis StevensonTREASURE ISLANDAdapted by Ralph roseProduced by les mitchelChorus under the direction of Richard davisThe CastNarrator and John Silver. BASIL RATHBONEJim Hawkins.................-...dix davisBilly Bones.................. ken Christy...................Squire Trelawney......raymond lawrenceCaptain Smollett...........richard ahernePirate......................Joseph granbyBen Gunn.....................harry langCOLUMBIA MASTERWORKSSet M-MM 553Robert Louis Stevenson was thirty-oneyears old when he started to write TreasureIsland. The original title was The Sea Cook,and the idea for the story was suggested bya large, brightly colored map that he oncemade to entertain a small schoolboy who livednear his home and whose friendship Steven-son had cultivated.Stevenson was quite modest about the origi-nality of Treasure Island, and admitted thatthere were elements in the plot that were pos-sibly contained in other stories. In his ownforeword to Treasure Island he says: Nodoubt the parrot once belonged to RobinsonCrusoe, and other elements of the story canbe found in Edgar Allan Poe. Once I chancedto pick up Tales of a Traveler and was sur-prised to find in that book Captain BillyBones, his chest, and a good deal of materialBasil Rathbonedetail of my first chapters. In fact, the wholeinner spirit appeared to be the property ofWashington Irving.”Stevenson’s concept of the originality ofsome of the material proved to be of littleimportance to his readers, however, for Treas-ure Island became one of the most successful— if not the best known — of all his books,and remains, as always, a glorious adventureto all not acquainted with the story, and athesaurus of continuing thrills and interest tothose who have read it again and again.Through the medium of phonograph rec-ords, Treasure Island literally comes to life.The stormy oaths of Long John Silver are nolonger mere written bellowings on the printedpage to be punctuated with an exclamationpoint. His rough and raucous voice is thereto be heard, as is the chattering of the parrot,the dying groans of Billy Bones, and the bat-tle between the ship’s officers and the mutin-ous pirates in all its exciting detail.In this album Basil Rathbone, star of stage,screen, and radio, adds another brilliant per-formance to his long list of superb character-izations on Columbia Records, which includeScrooge in Dickens’ Christmas Carol, and theNarrator in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf,not to forget his reading of Edna St. VincentMillay’s The Murder of Lidice. Best knownperhaps for his interpretation of SherlockHolmes, Mr. Rathbone in Treasure Islanddemonstrates his unlimited versatility by hisperformance as both Long John Silver andthe Story Teller.

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