[78-L] Victor number puzzlement

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

David Lennick wrote:

> 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.

What's more "thilly" than Victor starting nearly all their two-digit- 
prefix renumberings at some arbitrary point: 10-1000; 11-8000;  
20-1500; 28-0400; 30-0800; 33-0500; 34-0700; etc. (I've not seen any  
of the 10-0000 reissue series you mention.)

The 'Double-Feature' 45-0xxx series actually started at a sensible  
-0000, as did the 44-xxxx twin-sided jukebox series, while the RCA  
Victor "Bluebird Series" restarted at 30-0001 (not -0000? Whyzzat,  
RCA Victor?)

(Whoever did the "requesting" for those reissues, I wish they'd  
specified the use of original masters instead of dubbing nearly  
everything...a very few of them were actually pressed up from  
original parts.)

Take care,


Joe
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