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

[David Lennick]

It's still worth reading, and he's on much firmer ground once he gets to the 
stereo era. But fact checking by people at the Library of Congress or half the 
people on this list would have found hundreds of errors that could easily have 
been corrected, beginning with the cover illustration (a mono number on a "360 
Sound Stereo" label). This isn't being picky..this is about basic incorrect info.

dl

On 8/23/2010 11:10 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> 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).
> dl
>
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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.
>
>
> db