[78-L] Schwann Catalog(ue)s

[Michael Biel]

On 8/17/2011 12:55 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> I can narrow it down even farther than that. I have the November 1952 issue, which still is titled "The Long Player."

Well, unless what you have is not the W. Schwann publication, it 
wouldn't be exactly "The Long Player" as that was the name of the new 
competiting catalog that was launched by Sam Goody.  Schwann's original 
title was "Long Playing Record Catalog".  I'm missing the first Volume 
of The Long Player, and my bound set starts with January 1953, Volume 2 
No. 1.  A Nov 1952 Long Playing Record Catalog published by W. Schwann 
in Cambridge would be Vol 3 No.11 and would be stapled.  A Nov 1952 The 
Long Player would be Vol 1 No? and would be perfect bound published by 
Long Player Publications in NYC.  If what you have is the latter, it 
sure would help me to know what that issue number was.

Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> The next one I have in the series is February 1953, which has "Schwann" at the top of the cover. This means that the change happened in either the December 1952, or the January or February 1953 issues. I'll bet they made the switch with the January issue.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:40:05 -0400
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Schwann Catalog(ue)s
>>
>
>> I don't have handy the manuscript of my history of Schwann which I presented at ARSC in Austin,
>> Texas in 2005 where I noted exactly when the name change happened, but
>> from the catalogs I have here, the change came between the April 1952
>> and May 1953 issues.  It was about that time when "The Long Player"
>> catalog came out in competition.  (I have a nearly complete set of these
>> and "Jazz and Pops" in bound volumes.  I have at least one per year of
>> Schwann till 1958 when I am about 75% complete, although I have a lot of
>> holes in my Schwann Supplementary/Schwann 2 holdings.)
>>