[78-L] ADB & ET

[David Lennick]

Transcription discographies originally published by Ajax/Ajaz and Joyce are 
still available from Metolius. Some are very skimpy, some provide great 
information. I have World, Associated, MacGregor, Standard (a total pain in the 
ass to use because there's no single artist index, only one index for each 
series)..don't have Thesaurus or LangWorth. David Kressley, Charles Garrod, Rod 
Baum among the compilers.

http://www.metoliusmusic.com/

dl

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Since many discographies do not list transcriptions among their subject 
> matter (mine included) let's go a little further out on that branch. 
> Would a serious transcription discog include material recorded on disc 
> privately (at home or on a personal disc cutting unit) off the air?
> Lots of people did this in the 1940s and 50s, and maybe earlier, and I'm 
> sure there are re-recordings of not only on-air broadcast transcriptions 
> but many one of a kind live performances. While not technically 
> commercial transcriptions would they merit inclusion or not?
> 
> Then there's the Hawaiian Transcriptions label. Probably the first use 
> of the then new disc cutting technology in Hawaii - from c. 1934 until 
> around the start of WW2 - HT was owned jointly by the Advertiser 
> newspaper chain and KGU radio.
> The story goes that the radio station got so many requests for music 
> they heard over KGU that the company was started to supply the demand. 
> The studio was located on the top of the Advertiser newspaper building 
> in Honolulu.
> While not a true transcription service - the artists that played live on 
> air were rerecorded doing the same material they aired to be sold, the 
> material was not recorded off air and pressed from that source - I 
> believe they did supply masters, recorded live over telephone lines, to 
> Hawaiian transcription services for sale to the US mainland markets.
> Curiouser and curiouser.
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> Birgit Lotz Verlag wrote:
>> Post scriptum:
>> I just remember: The first catalog of World Transcriptions (1933-1963) 
>> was compiled by David Kressley in Record Research way back in 1968 ...
>> There is so much information around ready to be tapped.
>>
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