[78-L] Joe Venuti Discography Wiki

[David Lewis]

Thanks again to Julian for providing the information I asked for.

And yeah, I probably could have spent the last two days doing something truly constructive, rather than assembling a discography for Joe Venuti on Wikipedia. I could hardly have chosen a subject who is more a magnet for discographical controversy than Joe, and although I miss Bozy White I am glad he is not around to see this; he'd be mad as a wet hen.

Nevertheless, I have looked around and can say that there is no other discography like this on Wikipedia. Singles listed are generally only chart items that are arranged in their relation to their placements in Whitburn. The one for Glenn Miller isn't a discography at all; it is merely material razored out of his regular biography. There are things I know of that I could not include because I did not have enough information about them; there are two Big Band compilations on JSP -- though they are 20s and 30s recordings -- that I couldn't date or establish content, though I suspect they are included in the 4-CD JSP. I'm not sure how to incorporate single tracks on compilation albums, or whether that would simply clutter up the page. Sorry, Cary -- that's why the Venuti track from your book CD is not mentioned, though I may add the book itself as a reference later.

This, though, I feel sets a higher bar for discography on Wikipedia for 78 rpm material. I hope that they do not take it down for some reason. And I will gladly field all comments and corrections, even the mad as a wet hen ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Venuti_Discography

Uncle Dave Lewis
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