[78-L] Decca 17,000 Cajun series

[Cary Ginell]

As I recall, I deferred to actual record labels first, and then to label copy, since there were sometimes differences. Most of the Decca 78s I found came from the collections of Eugene Earle and Donald Lee Nelson, along with my own stuff. There were very few that I couldn't track down at all in one form or another - these I took from existing catalogs. I don't remember if I saw label copy books for this series at Universal.

 

I always wondered what "Turtape of Saroied" was. Back when I was doing this, there was no Internet and corroborating facts was laborious and time-consuming. In fact, I typed out the first draft on an electric typewriter. When the book was published (it was with Greenwood, which requires camera-ready copy), I had to have someone scan my typewritten manuscript in order to get them data disks to work from (on 5 1/4" floppies). Imagine the quality of scanners in the late 1980s - "1"s were turned into lower case "l"s and vice versa. Doing that book was a nightmare. I got my first computer while I was writing it - it had two 5 1/4" floppy drives and 20 MB of hard drive space.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:00:24 +0200
> From: goldenbough at arcor.de
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Decca 17,000 Cajun series
> 
> 
> 
> The listing of this series at http://www.78discography.com/Dec17000.htm 
> has MANY, not only 'quite a few errors and typos'', as Cary Ginell states. 
> Some of the titles there have got nothing to do with what's on the record. 
> 
> 'The DECCA Hillbilly Discography', however, is correct - when I compare 
> the info with the actual records in my collection. 
> 
> Must have been difficult for Cary Ginell to examine ''company label copy 
> and actual issues whenever possible'', because the 17,000 series is not in 
> the archive. It was taken out from there by a well-known collector of early 
> Hillbilly music, way back in the 1970's. 
> 
> The titles on the records are a maze anyway, because of the haphazard 
> spelling of Cajun language. Decca 17,023 ''La Turtape de Saroied' (English 
> subtitle: 'The Turtape of Saroied') should in fact be 'Le Two-Step de Savoy'. 
> Get the typos? 
> 
> Turtape = Tustape = Two-Step. 
> Saroied = 'Savoied' = Savoy. 
> (In this song, Amédé Ardoin sings about Cajun musician Marc Savoy's father) 
> 
> Now you know what problems with title listings I am facing with my upcoming 
> discography 'Cajun Music on Records 1925-2007' (from the first shellac disc 
> to the last vinyl) which will list records on 400+ diferent labels. I fear that 
> half of the title index will cross-reference to 'correct titles' (like in the example
> above) or refer to 'standard titles' as used by musicians, like: 
> 
> 'Vuves dela Coolay' see 'Veuves de la Coulée'
> 'Filles de la Coulée' see 'Veuves de la Coulée' 
> 'Gens du village' see 'Veuves de la Coulée'
> 'Black Sox' see 'Veuves de la Coulée' 
> etc. 
> 
> The basis of the discography is my own Cajun record collection which emcompasses
> 450 Cajun 78s, 1,350 Cajun 45s and 580 Cajun LPs. That's >98% of all Cajun output. 
> 
> Benno 
> 
> 
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