[78-L] Widely separated matrix numbers..!

[David Lennick]

Note that I'm referring to the RENUMBERING code system, not the introduction of 
the decade/year/prefix/number system that Victor switched to in 1943 (or 
possibly in the fall of 1942, since they were still recording transcriptions 
and client masters when the AFM ban wiped out most other recording activities).

David Lennick wrote:
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Victor? Victor began changing old matrix numbers to the new system! Not 
>>> sure if
>>> this began in the 40s or early 50s, but masters from 1900 through the 
>>> 1930s
>>> would have "retro" new numbers. Perfect example: C8-VB-0001..Artie Shaw's 
>>> 1938
>>> "Indian Love Call" on an early 50s reissue.
>>>
>> 1943, to be exact! When (RCA) Victor converted to the new systen, all the
>> earlier matrices were converted! The Shaw reissue suggests that the "number"
>> section was numbered in the order of REissue...and NOT original issue...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr 
>>
> 
> No, probably 1953. Otherwise, Indian Love Call probably stayed in print on 
> Bluebird and Victor using its original master or various dubs derived 
> therefrom, but when a new master was made for inclusion in an LPT series (and 
> WPT on 45, and promo 78s) they gave it the master it would have had if they'd 
> had the foresight to devise the new mastering series in 1901. Matter of fact, 
> the Victor Alphabet in the New Amberola Graphic refers to this new matrix 
> numbering code as having come into effect August 15, 1951.
> 
> dl
>