[78-L] More educational 78's. When were these made?

[David Lennick]

The ones with RCA numbers are easy to date..E1 = 1951, E2- 1952. Decca's 
76/77xxx numbers are a custom series and are a nuisance since some of them 
duplicate commercial matrix numbers..Keynote, Commodore and other small labels 
have numbers in that series in the early 40s. Decca skipped from 76999 to 80000 
in October 1950 because the 77000s were being used for custom labels but 
repeated the 76000s in March 1950. Awfully nice of them.

The RCA educational series discs just became easier to date because of the gold 
print, which changed to silver sometime in..1950? Not sure.

dl

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> Another batch of educational type 78's I have here. It all seems to 
> be early elementary school (grades 1 to 3) material.
> 
> Ginn And Company Songs From Singing In Harmony Of Our Singing World. 
> I seem to have 2 different series of these as follows & would like to 
> know the years these sets were made if possible. Not that I collect 
> these but a friend of mine (another record collector I've known about 
> 30 years)  gave me a big stack of educational 78's that he had 
> gotten. He lives in Baytown Texas & mainly collects 45's.
> 
> Blue background silver text made by RCA. One has record 33A E2-C-0119 
> as it's matrix number for side A.
> 
> Red label with black text made by RCA. Record 25A Matrix E1-CB- 2665
> 
> 
> Audio Education Inc. The American Singer. White, light blue & dark 
> blue on the label. American Book Company and Decca Records Inc.  One 
> record says Games And Dances. Book 111 with side A matrix of 77785.
> 
> Follett Educational Series all recorded by Columbia. first set light 
> blue & white label with light blue text. Together We Sing. Follett 
> Publishing Company. One record is Childrens Activity And Game Songs 
> album 22 record 2201 matrix PC-6456. Second set set album 21 record 
> 2105. Matrix PC- 6232. Light pink background with dark pink text. 
> Third set green & yellow label with dark green text album 3 record 
> 303 matrix PC- 5951. Fourth set blue & yellow with blue text. Album 2 
> record 202 matrix PC- 5941.
> 
> Right now I'm cleaning up & playing the RCA ones I asked about in an 
> earlier post, must be about 20 of those. I'll clean up & play these 
> too once then put them in sleeves to add to my huge accumulation of 
> records. This list of 3 manufacturers is about 50 discs all together.
> 
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