[78-L] missing Ge ledger pages

[Michael Biel]

On 1/31/2011 9:42 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> 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

Glad to be of service in my first message post -liberation from the 
hospital.. I've got two of the neighbor kids here with me all staring 
wide eyed at the stuff here, and it just so happens that the first two 
Richmond ledgers are within reach.  But they are not photocopies but are 
retypings. 11751 is plain take and -A,B,C  11752 is plain, a b, 11753 
and 4 are plain and A  Blackers preface is dated August 1975.

Mike  mbiel at mbiel.,com
> *******
>
> 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
>>
>> *******
>>
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> *******
>>>>
>>>> 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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