[78-L] Obscure Columbia catalog...

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> From: Graham Newton <gn at audio-restoration.com>
>> Somewhere around 1932, Columbia in the UK produced a catalog titled:-
>> "Catalog of Film Accompaniment Records"
>> It contained hundreds of their standard records of the day listed under 
>> 18
>> headings of 'Characteristic and Mood Music' and it included specialized 
>> mood
>> recordings for film synchronization by composers like J.S. Zamecnik.
>> I wonder if that was something issued by Columbia only in the UK or would 
>> it
>> also have seen the light of day in America? I've never heard anything
>> previously about it... does anyone, by any chance, have a copy?
>
> Wasn't this around the time when UK Columbia was recording sound effects
> records that did also appear on U.S. Columbia?  Since that was a special
> series, was this effort also involving a special re-labeling of these
> records, or could it merely be like Edison had done in the late teens by
> publishing a booklet "Mood Music" that just listed suggestions of using
> certain records in the regular catalog to create certain moods?
>
> On a similar note, yesterday at the Wayne NJ show I saw a record on a
> non-Gennett label but with a Richmond Indiana address of a background
> music-type record with a label notation that it is NOT licensed for
> synchronization.  Wish I could remember the label name.  Sound familiar?
>
My first instinctive reply was "Ask Graham Newton"...until I noticed that
the original question had come from GN himself...?!

However, note that there were MANY 78rpm UK labels which
issued "Background-music libraries" (when did these first appear?)
and these "Columbia 'mood music'" issues MAY relate to those?!

...stevenc