[78-L] Record Changer (was Collectibles)

[Cary Ginell]

Between the time Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer ran the magazine and Richard Hadlock took over, there was a huge gap in the Record Changer's published issues.  My research shows that the last Keepnews/Grauer edition was September 1955. There were no issues until Hadlock's first in January 1957. There were only three more: in February, March, and then another gap until the last issue in November. I have not seen the last issue (it is one of the few I still need to acquire).

 

Incidentally, Hadlock is still alive and living in the Bay Area. 

 

I'm planning a report on Record Changer's history for the 2010 ARSC conference in New Orleans, an apt place since the bulk of RC's thrust was towards N.O. jazz. The issues are fascinating, especially during the time when the big pirating scandal broke out. This surrounded the Jolly Roger (the most appropriate record label title in history) label's unlicensed issuing of 78s on 10" LPs in the early '50s. The majors screamed self-righteous bloody murder, especially RCA, until it was discovered that it was RCA who did Jolly Roger's pressings! The turmoil that followed resulted in the debut of RCA's "X" reissue label and the beginning of Grauer's Riverside label.

 

Cary Ginell 
 
> 
> > Speaking of specialized collections, I have an almost complete
> > run of Record Changers, which ran from 1942 to 1957. Cary Ginell
> 
> All acquired by your personal subscription, of course!
> 
> So Record Research began before the demise of Record Changer?? 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
> 
> > From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> 
> > Record Changer first appeared in 1941, allowing pop-78 collectors to
> > sell records to one another...it in turn begat Record Research
> > (c.1956)...and later the unrelated New Amberrola Graphic
> > (AFAIK, now discontinued?). These periodicals performed
> > to a great extent (but less "organized") the same function now
> > performed by 78-L...?!
> 
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