[78-L] Record collecting [was (no subject)]

[Michael Biel]

The University of Science in Vienna began its sound archive in 1899.  
Edison himself had become a collector of sound recordings ten years 
earlier when he had Col. Gauroud send him the voices of great 
personages.  The Edison Phonograph Monthly has several articles 
discussing people who are collecting cylinders.  Phonograph Societies 
began in England in the teens if not earlier, and were very important by 
the time The Gramophone magazine started publishing in 1923 to, among 
other things, serve them.  There were vocal collecting groups in the 
20s, and jazz collecting groups by the 30s.  Delaunay published Hot 
Discography in 1936, so jazz collecting was well organized in Europe 
before then.  It is fascinating looking thru my 1940 printing of the 
1938 edition that was owned by a club, AETC Auston Hall, Harvard 
University, where there are neatly written additions including Zulus 
(sic.) Ball!  The check marks and underlinings show which performers 
were in greater favor with these college kids.  There are ads for Hot 
Jazz magazine published in Paris as the "Official Organ of the 
International Federation of Hot Clubs",  and Jazz Information magazine 
advertised themselves as "America's First Magazine Devoted To Hot Music" 
and that they published weekly additions and corrections to Hot 
Discography.  Gramophone Shop started publishing catalogs in the early 
30s that became the Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia in 1936.  David Hall 
published The Record Book in 1940 and Irving Kolodin soon followed with 
a similar book.  And has been mentioned, Hobbies started a record 
column, but it dates back to the mid-30s with separate classical and 
popular articles by authors other than Jim Walsh. 

So record COLLECTING seems to have been around as long as there have 
been records.

Mike (started paying attention to keeping my records when I was about 3 
or 4) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Ron L wrote:
> I have a friend who started collecting (buying "old" records, back in the
> 1930s when he was a kid.   He was junking for 5, to 10 year old records at
> that time, I'd say.  He also bought new records of artists/style he liked.
>
> Ron L
>
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Julian Vein
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Record collecting [was (no subject)]
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> Stephen Davies wrote:
>
>   
>>         There seems to be a great sense of addressing posterity in the 
>> earliest Edison recordings.  At some point, recorded sound became so 
>> common that it was just a consumeable moment rather than a historic event.
>>     
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>>  When did discs regain the status of  being a legacy?  I presume the 
>> answer depends on what genre of recording is being considered:  classical,
>>     
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>> popular, spoken word...
>>
>> - Stephen D
>> Calgary
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> A related subject: when did record collecting, as opposed to record 
> buying, start?
>
>       Julian Vein
>