[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 90

[Royal Pemberton]

On 12/29/08, Nigel Burlinson <burlinson at orange.fr> wrote:
> For many internet years (principally using the site
> http://settlet.fateback.com/discography.html )
> I have been trying to compile a NUMERIC listing of Columbia/ARC matrix
> numbers in the series
> 140XXX to 152772 and I agree with the remarks you make.  It seems to have
> been that at the end
> of June/beginning of July 1934 that the 140000 series (which had reached
> 152772 at that point)
> series was dropped in favour of the Plaza/ARC series which had started
> around February 1923 (5001)
> and by this time had reached 15381 (Wilmouth Houdini - July 2 1934).
>
> Columbia continued to use this series (primarily for recordings originating
> in New York)
> for many years, certainly up to the early 1970's.
>
>
> Nigel Burlinson
> PS I don't have the Columbia Master Books, unfortunately!

I don't have those books either.   (And wish I did!)   I got all my
info off the site you cite.

The Plaza series actually started a little earlier....5001 was
recorded 24th November 1922.