[78-L] Command

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
>> And when a (jazz) label isn't featured even in "The Almost Complete 78 rpm
>> Record Dating Guide", compiled by Dr. Steven C Barr - which it isn't - it
>> sure IS obscure.
>>
> Not really true! I didn't try to include EVERY 78 label in my DG; at the 
> time,
> someone else was doing a 1942-on equivalent work, and I happily let him
> take on that complicated and difficult job! His book came out not too long
> after mine (and drifted into oblivion before I could buy a copy). I still 
> hate
> to think of the amount of research and time needed to do a COMPLETE
> guide to EVERY 78rpm record label that ever existed...>!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 

Don't fret, guys..the BIRDLAND label asked about earlier is listed in Gart's 
ARLD and has minimal info ("c. 1950, New York") while this group already 
identified it as a Chicago label from 1949, absorbed into Prestige.

dl