[78-L] Velvet Tone 7000 series

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tyrone Settlemier" <talk78s.settlemier at sbcglobal.net>
> Actually, the reason ODP starts at 7028 is merely because I am missing
> information from all earlier numbers (in 7000 sereis, that is).  I just 
> got
> #7003, so I'll include that in next month's update.
>
> It seems to have started as a "standard" series (old time music, hymns, 
> old
> comedy routines, etc), and then a mixture of country and "race" material.
> Perhaps it was Columbia's 14000 and 15000 series combined, but on a 
> budget?
>
Country material was often included in "standard" series; the same was 
sometimes
true for "race" when the label did not have its own such series!

Steven C. Barr