[78-L] acoustic vanity - price list?

[Michael Biel]

The Gennett ledgers often list the prices charged and paid for vanity 
recordings.  $25 per side seems to be what I remember and $1 to 1.50 per 
pressing.  Often the address of the client is shown and the number of 
pressings ordered noted. I don't have the time to drag out my copy of 
the ledgers, but I don't recall these being shown as vanity recordings 
in the ledgers.  Mal, what does the ledger sheet show?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 1/27/2011 9:36 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Yeahbut... 4 sides were cut in Richmond on Feb. 18, 1924 and the two
> acceptable ones "Fidgety Feet" b/w "Jazz Me Blues" were released on
> Gennett 5408, so it wasn't a vanity pressing... unless, of course, it
> was decided by Gennett to release after the fact. The other two sides
> "Lazy Daddy" (3 takes) and "Sensation" (2 takes) were not issued but it
> is possible they got test copies of those, too. Far as I know no tests
> of the two non-issues have surfaced and no recording cards are known to
> have survived.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> On 1/27/2011 11:08 AM, david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:
>> IIRC, one of the members of the Wolverines recalled their first Gennet session in Feb., 1924 cost each of the 8 band members $25, so 200 bucks for four sides, and 25 copies of the two acceptable performances coupled together. And the photograph ;-)
>>    DJD