[78-L] The Label - The Story of Columbia Records.

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Autry did record for Harmony, which kept the acoustical process till 1929 or 
1930, but that book is so full of howlers I try not to believe anything in it 
(which is too bad, because the guy obviously had access to private files and 
Goddard Lieberson's personal notes).
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Everything Marmorstein says is followed by a footnote indicating his source of 
information.  If this is full of howlers, (which I assume means 
miss-information, not jokes), I have to assume there simply are no believable 
authorities in this field.  Every book I've read - including "The Fabulous 
Phonograph", "From Tinfoil to Stereo" and many others - is always shot down as 
being so full of errors that they should be in the fiction section of the book 
store.

There is so much information in the Marmorstein book that I can't possibly  
remember it all, including dozens of names, so I'm just really reading it to get 
a sense of the evolution of the label.  


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