[78-L] First 78 & my filing system

[Taylor Bowie]

Columbia 2946-D.  Irving Aaronson and His Commanders.  Pardon My Southern 
Accent b/w When You First Ate An Olive.

I have my orchestra (dance,  jazz,  etc.)  records filed separately from the 
vocals,  and have small sections for spoken word,  odd labels, foreign 
(non-English language) stuff.  All except foreign are filed alphabetically 
by artist,  then label,  then in numerical order within each label.  They 
are in 22 four-drawer file cabinets.  That doesn't count album sets,  12" or 
the approx  1,000 10" which are at this time unfiled...guess it's around 
20,000 which, more and more,  seems to be my threshold of pain as far as 
adding more.  I've really tried to slow down this last year,  and have sort 
of succeeded.

This is still satisfactory to me about 90% of the time...but it can be a 
problem with splits and even worse with pseudonyms.  I keep a lot of info in 
my head,  but damned if I can always remember which did what among all the 
issues I have labeled Lloyd Keating,  Jerry Fenwyck,  Frank Auburn,  Jack 
Whitney, Chester Leighton,  etc.

Other problem is when you get a bunch of new stuff by one artists and have 
to jiggle-shit the stuff around it from one drawer to another to make room. 
A few months ago I got a really nice batch of  E+ Lombardo Brunswicks and 
Columbias,  and ended up pulling all of Guy out and making a special section 
for him in the last drawer where I had some room.  I can't think of any 
other artist where I'm missing a lot and am also likely to find so I hope 
that will be that last "cheating" I do on my own system.

Upgrading to a better copy is the most fun because you just yank out the old 
one and replace it with the nice new "shinny" copy,  as they sometimes say 
on eBay.

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78


>
> Well, the first cabinet you come upon when entering my record room is the 
> pre-war hillbilly 78s. I file them alphabetically by artist. Artists are 
> grouped in separate sections if I have more than 5 by one artist. For 
> artists with less than 5 discs, I file them by letter. So the first one in 
> the miscellaneous "A" category is "Footprints in the Snow"/"New Birmingham 
> Jail" by Big Slim Aliff on Decca 5316.
> On the opposite side of the room, the upper-left-hand shelf starts with 
> pre-war blues and the first record there is "Bell Cow Blues"/"Boe Hog 
> Blues" by Texas Alexander on OKeh 8563 (in pretty nice shape, I might 
> add).
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:06:12 +0000
>> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] First 78
>>
>> No, not the first 78 you bought, but which is the first one on your
>> shelves? Mine is "In Pinetop's Footsteps" by Teddy Powell on Bluebird
>> B11276.
>>
>>       Julian Vein
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