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unusual facts about Lyrichord Discs


Lyrichord Discs

Always a label that explored an eclectic range of musical styles, Lyrichord happened to be the label to record and release the first album of late folk/blues legend Dave Van Ronk, entitled “Skiffle in Stereo” (1957) with a band called the “Orange Blossom Jug Five” including Dave Van Ronk, guitar and vocals, Sam Charters cornet, guitar, Ann Danberg, washboard, Len Kunstadt, (co-owner of the Spivey Records label) on kazoo, and Russell Glynn, playing jug.


Fernando Valenti

His recordings of Bach (two outstanding early ones for the Lyrichord Discs label) and Scarlatti (well over twenty LPs for Westminster Records) were highly regarded, and he was regularly mentioned in the pages of National Review by William F. Buckley Jr..


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