[78-L] Need help identifying HMV labels

Bertrand CHAUMELLE chaumelle at orange.fr
Sun Jun 27 10:47:36 PDT 2010


You're right, Han.
I meant K8827 (Renée Lebas), not 8227, as the highest numbered 
Gramophone i've seen.

Highest La Voix de son Maître is K9227 (Frères Domergue, accordion) 
released in 1955.

BC
Le 27 juin 10, à 15:10, Han Enderman a écrit :

>
> I have numerous label images of the French K series above K-8227 with 
> Gramophone labels.
> Examples:
> K-8227 Waller, Paswonky (rec Jun 1936 !!)
> K-8300 Goodman (House Hop)
> K-8732 Ellington: Ko-Ko
> K-8796 Ellington: Sepia Panorama.
> K-8800 Glenn Miller: Falling Leaves
> K-8859 is the last one I have as image, by F.Revoil.
> ( a single item above K-9000 appears to be a typo for a lower nr).
>
> Low Voix d/s Maitre K-nrs are reissues of Gram., for ex. K-6153 
> Ellington:Mood Indigo,
> and K-8732 Conga Brava/Ko-Ko.
> The highest VdsM K- I have seen is K-9187 Hampton: Open House,
> but K-9172 is Esquire Winners, Indian Summer, in Swing Music 1947 
> Series (No.738).
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
>>>> Le 26 juin 10, à 03:11, Han Enderman a écrit :
>>
>> The French used several series
>>  for their "HMV" label:
>> - Disque pour Gramophone (early issues, at least reaching K-1597)
>> - Disque "Gramophone" (going over K-9000)
>> - La Voix de son Maitre (in upper case and thus without accents on
>> label).
>> Possibly most or all VsM K-series are repressings of Disque Gr.
>>
> Last Gramophone 'K' I know of: K8227, recorded June 1947. La Voix de
> son Maître afterwards.
>
> Other French series:
> DA (10") red label
> DB (12") red label
> L (12") bordeaux label; up to 1000 (higher numbers are Columbia)
> P (10") red label
> W (10") red label
> SG (10") light green label; later dark green.
>
> BC
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