[78-L] Letter codes on Brunswick Vocalion

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Tue Aug 24 16:39:27 PDT 2010


From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Some Vocalion labels, mainly in range 1665-1689, have a capital letter on 
> the label,
> usually after or below the cat.nr (but not a suffix).
> These Vocalions are not the first pressings, but later pressings with the 
> title in upper case
> Similar letters occur on Brunswick), below the cat.nr at 6h.
> Is the meaning of such letters known
> Examples:
> Voc 1634 N - Alabama Wb Stompers
> Voc 1665 C - Memphis Minnie
> Voc 1689 N - Alabama Wb Stompers
> Br 6288 N - Ellington
> Br 6292 C - Calloway
> Br 6322 & 6349 C - Isham Jones
> Supertone S-2087 P - Tennessee Ramblers.
>
On all that I have seen, the letter relates to the location where the
recording was made.

At this point my accumulation is in such complete disarray that
I can't cite examples...you can blame my <deleted> "landlady"
for that...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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