[78-L] Victor discography pages cached

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
> Stephen Davies wrote:
>> If, like me, you are a frequent referrer to the Encyclopedic Discography 
>> of Victor Recordings (EDVR) at UC Santa Barbara, and if you too are 
>> inconvenienced by the database problems which browsers currently 
>> experience, you can still find your disc info at the UCSB site.
>> I have not been able to use EDVR since Thursday night, altho some pages 
>> will eventually appear.  Usually I get a database error message.
>> I tried to find a back door into the database, but instead found that 
>> most of the pages (probably all) are cached courtesy of Google.  So using 
>> the top search box of the UCSB homepage [  http://ucsb.edu ] with terms 
>> like EDVR & the matrix or catalogue number will find you a link to the 
>> page you need.  Don't click the primary link, since that's the one that's 
>> not working, but click the "Cached" link instead.
>> The only difference with the cached page is that the links to other pages 
>> don't work.  You'll need to submit a refined search to go further.
>> E.g. I searched EDVR 4696 to find my disc's matrix number, and then 
>> searched EDVR E-3147 to find the take number and other recording info.
>>Actually, if this is a record you OWN, the take number should be visible 
>>on the disc itself!
Victor almost NEVER put matrix numbers on their records (there are a few 
exceptions...1927-28
discs, post-1951 US discs, and a few Red Seal issues!)...but they put take 
numbers on all their
1909-1951 records. These are stamped at the 9:00 position...!

A handful of Canadian 1908-1911 Victors will show m# & take data "under the 
label."
Victor apparently "hand-wrote" this data in the label area of their masters; 
the info was
removed by the "label-recessing" process...which was NOT used in Canada 
until
around 1912...?!

Steven C. Barr