[78-L] RCA Victor 22-XXXX series query.

Randy Watts rew1014 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 4 08:38:08 PDT 2009


William R. Daniels' record dating guide notes catalog numbers running from 0001 to 0140 in RCA Victor's 22-/50- series. He dates -0001 to January 1949 and -0140 to August 1951.

Randy

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone here know anything about
> this series?  I've only ever seen one
> record in it, 22-0103, 'Tea for two' b/w ''Lotus blue' by
> Charlie Ventura
> and his orchestra; it's my dad's worn and cracked
> copy.  (Was this a
> bebop/modern jazz series?)  Underneath this catalogue
> number is 50-0103 in
> parentheses, suffixed with the appropriate A or B. 
> I'm sure that's the
> catalogue number for the 45 equivalent, so at least I can
> surmise this disc
> dates from 1949, when RCA Victor did this on its 78
> labels


      



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