[78-L] Victor number puzzlement

[David Lennick]

On 10/28/2010 7:01 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
>> ...I have never seen a US 20-series below 20-1500...H.E.
>
> The 20-xxxx series did start circa October-November 1942 at 20-1500
> (first four numbers are "Bunny Berigan Memorial Album" P-134). But by
> 1951, there were a few special "Re-Issued By Request" issues numbered
> just under that catalog number (most common one is 20-1495, a reissue
> of Glenn Miller's two-part "Anvil Chorus"). That would explain the
> "20-1400 and up" catalog notation.

Well how thilly can you get? All sorts of "reissued by request" in the 20-2000s 
(which means they were reissued by request of the sales department who had 
nothing to flog, thanks to the AFM ban in 1948) so why go backwards? Victor Red 
Seals also introduced a 10-0000 series post-war, reissues of old vocal records.

dl