[78-L] Sharing sequence numbers between labels

[Royal Pemberton]

Tyrone's site shows the Y-MM-XX series continuing into mid-1938 under
Melotone.  The final pop item is 8-05-01, 'Ti-pi-tin' (mx 22448) b/w
'Oooh-boom' (mx 22449) by Gene Kardos and his orchestra; both sides recorded
17 February 1938.  Highest matrix number in the New York series reached is
matrix 22451, 'A gypsy told me', released as by Joel Shaw and his orchestra
(Kardos again), also recorded 17 February 1938, released on 8-04-05.

On the country side, the last of the lot is 8-04-63, 'Steel mill blues' (mx
C.1998-2) b/w 'I.G.N. blues' (mx C.1999-2), by Frank Tannehill, recorded 28
September 1937.  Also released on Vocalion 3510.

Highest Chicago matrix is C.2115, 'I hope you have been true' by Prairie
Ramblers, on 8-04-59, recorded 21 February 1938.
Highest Hollywood matrix is LA.1542, 'Lead me gently home, father' by Sons
of The Pioneers on 8-04-60, recorded 14 December 1937.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> >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.
> >
> Beginning in (around) mid-1936, ARC quit issuing most of its "client
> labels"...probably
> because the clients noticed they no longer sold all that well...?! IIRC, I
> have seen Romeos
> with 7-01-xx numbers...the highest Orioles I have seen are around 6-09-xx.
> I
> am VERY
> interested in establishing the highest catalog/date numbers for each of
> these ARC labels?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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