[78-L] Sharing sequence numbers between labels

[Harold Aherne]

I think it's very much easier to have a single catalogue number for each of the ARC
dime-store releases. Before 1935 there were separate numbers for Banner, Perfect, 
Oriole, Romeo, and Melotone and some issues were probably cross-coupled. 
*That's* a bigger headache!
 
Which leads me to ask something I'd been wondering: the three-part numbers were
universal for the ARC dime-store labels, I presume, but was everything *actually* released
on each label? Oriole and Romeo from the 1935-38 period are not easy to find, in my
experience, and that leads me to question whether everything that appeared on Melotone
really had a release on these more elusive makes. The problem is elided in discographies
by the convention of referring to one of these issues as "ARC 7-01-01", et al. That
*would* be the number if there was a Romeo or Oriole pressing, but I'm just curious
whether copies of each catalogue number under each label (or nearly so) are known.
 
-Harold
 
 

--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Charles Bihun <csintala79 at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Charles Bihun <csintala79 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [78-L] Sharing sequence numbers between labels
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 6:33 PM


The commonality between all the labels the songs were released on is that they were under the ARC umbrella at one time, as were the labels in question for the "American Novelty Orchestra" thread.  It looks like they were using sequencing numbers across labels for some time, considering my record is from "35 and the other (thge Vocalion) is from "40.

Was this a common practice?  It is a database manager's nightmare. 

ChuckB