[78-L] ARC numbers, was Re: Walter Winchell

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

The eminent Steven C. Barr wrote:

> ...ARC staggered along during this depression era...eventually issuing
> records on a YY-MM-## series on all its surviving labels until  
> mid-1937
> (not all the labels lasted that long, though!).

No, they didn't -- but that number series (more accurately, Y-MM-##  
starting November 1935) went on into 1938 before Melotone, Perfect  
and the remaining dime-store labels were dropped, leaving Brunswick,  
Columbia and Vocalion to soldier on with their own catalog numbers  
(and Columbia barely a shell of its former prominence). The highest  
US Melotone number in the "Abrams files" is 8-05-01.

Take care,


Joe
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