[78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 27, Issue 31 - Columbia EP numbering System was Wingy On Columbia

[Royal Pemberton]

The record companies didn't know which of the new speed formats would carry
on or founder, so they wanted to cover all bases.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <
rbratcherjr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any idea why RCA, Columbia (& perhaps other companies in the 50's) put out
> classical on 45 rpm sets instead of just doing it on LP's? And yes I have a
> few
> 45 rpm classical sets in my collection which I bought used years later
> after
> they were released.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Nigel Burlinson <burlinson at orange.fr>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Thu, December 16, 2010 8:21:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 27, Issue 31 - Columbia EP numbering
> System
> was Wingy On Columbia
>
> The A series of EP's below A.999 are generally derived from
> the MM series and are mostly classical box sets.
>
> From A.1000 to about A.1120 they continue as Box sets
> but the catalog numbers bear no relation to an Lp or 78rpm  equivalent.
>
> The B. series began as the EP equivalent of items in the old 'C' series of
> 78rpm albums (up to about B.548 or so) but the C series had petered out
> by C.516/C.517/C.518 (Fess Parker)
>
> Beginning with B.1500 they are all single EP's and if the selections
> were:
> Classical... they took an "A" prefix
> Childrens.. they took an "J" prefix
> Country.....they took an "H" prefix
> all in the same number sequence.
>
> The highest # in this block is B.2157
>
> There is a separate block B.2500-2644 "Hall of Fame" series
> and for the "Country & Western Hall of Fame" series the
> numbers are B.2801-2837.
>
> Numbers between about B.672-1 and B.1568-3 (last issue)
> are derived from the equivalent CL "Pop" series;
> sometimes the whole album was issued as three
> separate EP's (B.1568-1-2-3 Mitch Miller), sometimes just
> a single EP was issued (B.1370-1 Charles Mingus)
>
> The numbers written thus:  B.15681, B.15682, B.13701)
>
> Nigel Burlinson
> burlinson at orange.fr
>
>
>
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