[78-L] missing Ge ledger pages

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Amend that. I located my copies of the Richmond ledgers for mxes 12052 
-14457, so all I really need right now are copies of the sheets for mxes 
11000 - 12051. Blacker was working from the ledgers but I'm not sure 
they survive.
Mal

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On 1/27/2011 6:08 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> You might have to do some digging, after all.
> Unfortunately I do not have ledger sheets for these matrices (11751 - 
> 11754). My initial entries came from lists put together by George 
> Blacker in 1975.
> I have no recording card scans, either (mine begin at 11817). My 
> copies of the Richmond ledgers begin with mx 14458 (Nov. 24, 1928).
> Feel like making me copies of Richmond ledger sheets for matrices 
> 11000 to 14460 if you have them?
> Mal
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> On 1/27/2011 5:09 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> 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
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>>> 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
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