[78-L] Gennett questions

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Thu Oct 22 21:03:39 PDT 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm at 78data.com>
> This 85000 matrix series of Gennett's all look like renumbered matrices 
> from outside sources.
> If you're interested (David & Taylor and anyone else) I can send you a 
> .doc file of the series that has been documented so far. One of the 
> curious items is that the first number in the series would seem to be (I 
> say "seem to be" because the fact that I have no earlier numbers does 
> not mean there are none... then again...) mx. 85044 by Trixie Smith. The 
> last is mx. 85391 by Elnore Johnson (sic) on Black Patti 8033, which was 
> not released on Gennett.
> I show only 20 entries in this matrix series to date.
> Verrrrry curious.
> 
Yes! Gennett's 85### matrix series was used for recordings acquired from
"outside" sources! I'd have to dig through my half-vast accumulation of
"Abrams files" to see how many I'm (digitally) "aware" of, though!

Steven C. Barr



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