[78-L] Charles Lindbergh's reception

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> 38955 would seem to have been mastered at Victor's Camden facilityl
>> matrix numbers there ran through 38999, 39000 through (probably)
>> 39099 were all assigned to the Chicago facility; 39100-39330 are all
>> NYC numbers...39331-399 mostly Camed, and 39400 was assigned
>> to Camden in June, 1927.
>> Victor did NOT use matrix numbers in strict numeric order; blocks of
>> numbers were assigned to different studios...and in a few cases blocks
>> were discovered to have never been assigned, and were as a result
>> assigned WELL "after the fact!"
>>
> Because the gap happened beetween Saturday and Monday, that's what I had 
> assumed, that the intervening numbers were assigned blocks for 
> elsewhere.  I had hoped that the VMB2 would make it obvious if some of 
> those numbers showed up with their locales noted.  To those who have 
> never used the actual Victor files, the actual recording studio ledgers 
> that were filled out in the studios,  We get a "Daily Activity of 
> Recording" which is a typed sheet combined of all of the different 
> locations.  Then there is the "Recording Book [Artist] Index" which is a 
> compiled listing of all of the artist's recordings with different pages 
> for each artist.  After 1930 these were removed from the lose leaf 
> binders and put in artist folders which sometimes have been lost or 
> falsified.  So nothing is separated into recording locations.  There 
> isn't a Camden ledger, New York ledger, Chicago ledger, etc.  The 
> locations are all combined but they are all noted.  We're even told the 
> specific studio and the session times. 
> 
> > Partial data can be found in the Matrix folder of the "abrams files"...
> > Steven C. Barr
> 
> And where might these be found?
> 
Ask Ron Fial...! The "Abrams Files" WERE downloadable at his 78online.com
web site; however, I don't think they still are!

Steven C. Barr