[78-L] Ephemera as context

[George Anglin]

I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE with you Steven. Nothing thrills me more than to hold the original copy of Dan W. Quinns vocal rendition of "Won't you come home Bill Bailey, on Victor Monarch originally recorded in 1902. The real thing is more fun than a chip anyday. packard-marmon


--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca> wrote:

> From: Stephen Davies <SDavies at mtroyal.ca>
> Subject: [78-L] Ephemera as context
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 11:48 AM
> [was: Tony Martin Decca re-issue]
> 
> Steven B writes:
> 
> <<<
> Once was a time I could have provided the data using my
> half-vast archive 
> of catalogs; however, that was before my ...
> >>>
> 
>         Steven, I feel your pain.  But I notice that
> you're not writing in 
> ALL CAPS, so you must be simmering down a bit.
> 
>         Thank you for the pointer to the catalogues as the
> solution to my 
> puzzle ("Whence came this composite Tony Martin
> disc?").  Obviously, there 
> is valuable information in the record company catalogues to
> which we 
> non-owners do not have access, and which the usual
> discographical 
> compendiums do not include.
>         Here is a copyright question, then.  Are these
> catalogues 
> protected as "databases", or can we start copying
> them to a publicly 
> accessible forum?
>         Is the release date of a new catalogue considered
> to be the first 
> release of a new disc?
>         Does anyone track which paper sleeve would have
> been used for a 
> first release?  or how to date a paper sleeve?
>         Does anyone track which label appears on the first
> release, as 
> opposed to subsequent pressings where another label may be
> used?  (We saw 
> this with the Six Brown Brothers on Emerson where a variety
> of labels were 
> used for the same disc within a short timeframe.)
> 
>         Now, I know that for most of you, your collecting
> is all about 
> gathering the captured sound, but for a few it might also
> be about 
> recreating the original item in it's natural
> environment.  I'm a big fan 
> of context, which comes from studying/assuming/fantasizing
> about the 
> factors in making a disc, not just the outcome, and about
> the contemporary 
> "colour" from that time.
> 
>         Years ago, I created a web project based on
> Dickens' unfinished 
> novel, "The mystery of Edwin Drood" (1870). 
> It's a tantalizing mystery, 
> in that Dickens left some clues as to where the novel was
> heading, and you 
> the reader may be able to figure out the ending.  Some of
> the clues are in 
> the recurring illustration which he commissioned for the
> front cover of 
> the serialization.
>         If you were given the opporunity to read the novel
> online, or in a 
> paperback issue, or in the original serialization of six
> installments, 
> which would you prefer?  If you wanted to read the
> serialization, would 
> you like a library copy which has been bound, with the
> covers removed, or 
> would you prefer to handle (and this does exist) the
> separate issues 
> complete with the original advertising flyers and gewgaws
> for local 
> companies?
>         Doesn't this last option sound much more
> exciting?  That's the 
> sort of option I would like future generations to have when
> they turn to 
> the 78's, of which we are the current custodians.  If
> they can't touch the 
> real thing, at least we can leave them a record of what a
> disc's original 
> features were.
> 
>         Comments?
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
> 
> 
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