[78-L] 20th Century Records from Philadelphia

[Han Enderman]

Glenn, thanks for the info.
In this case I was interested in the (range of the) series of 20th Century.
And I did not know there was a 1000 series (possibly for country music?).

The Gotham produced 5000 series is the last one. Reported range 5000-5035 (ARLD, 1952-55).

The first (I think) label type is: upper half red, lower half white, used in the 20-xx series.
It has 20th Century in serifed font, as on the later blue label.
There is also an upper blue lower white label, poss. used inbetween.
The brown & white label seems to be the next one; I know it from # 2316. 
This type has a quite different lay-out.

I found a Mike Pedicin discography at http://hallelujah-rnr.iespana.es/index_archivos/MikePedicinDiscografia.htm

Han Enderman
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How about I confuse it a bit for you.  I have 3 different label types of 20th Century.  Two of them clearly say Ballen, the other mentions Gotham Record Corp.  ARLD mentions addresses for Gotham in NY and Philadelphia and also mentions one of its address as Ballen.  So perhaps all of these are related.  They are:
 
1003  by Henry Patrick and the Tavern Boys  (Ballen - Brown & White label)
20-33 by The Jesters  (Ballen - Blue label)
TC-5006 and TC-5009 by Mike Pedicin Quartet  (Gotham - yellow label)
TC-5023 by Mike Pedicin Quartet with John Kuhn Orch (Gotham - yellow label)
 
All three can be seen at http://majesticrecord.com/labelsnumber.htm.  I haven't written anything about them yet.
 
Let me know if you want more details on each record.
 
Glenn

--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:

From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
Subject: [78-L] 20th Century Records from Philadelphia
To: "78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 10:12 AM

20th Century Records were issued by Ballen Record Co., Philadelphia.
The first series is a 20-xx series.
ARLD gives dating guides 20-03 1/47, 20-56 1/48 and 20-99 11/49.
Then is mentioned 2100 3/50.
ARLD thus does not mention a 2000 series.

The last image I have in the 20-xx series is 20-56, and the next one I have 
is 2028 (by Park Avenue Jesters).
Question: is 2028 a repressing of 20-28?
And if so, did the 20-xx series end with 20-99 or did they earlier change to
the 2xxx numbers (without the dash)?

Han Enderman
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