The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

Here's a curiosity for you: Disque Ideal 6280 (etched label disk cut with the Pathé groove) is "Mon Coeur Souvre A Ta Voix" ("My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice") from Samson et Dalila of Saint-Saens sung by Lyse Charny. One side of Victor 6280 (red seal, double face) is exactly the same aria, sung by Ernestine Schumann-Heink. What were the chances of that?!?

Well, 100%, as it turns out, but still, not at all what I would have expected!