[78-L] Nations Forum Records

[Michael Biel]

On 9/6/2011 6:27 PM, Steve Ramm wrote:
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>   Jack - and others - as luck would have it, I found my copy of Dave's article - 18 pages. He lists the recordings and 1-26 were the basic ones. But there were 3 unumbered by Eamon DeLalera and 6 more from 1918-19 with 49xxx and 69xx numbers. These include Homer S. Cummings, Sen. Hitchcock of Nebraska and John D. Rockerfeller Jr.

In Donna's original message which I reposted, she mentioned that the 
numbers of the Coolidge recordings  shown in the Jordan Marsh ad are  
"Law and Order" (#61) and "Equal Rights" (#58).

The Library of Congress website I mentioned in my original posting does 
not have a plain old discography, but does give the total number of 
recordijngs the have from the series.  They do not mention how many 
might be duplicates or might have been unissued, but for example, they 
have four takes (!!) of the Coolidge recording.

From: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/nfcol.html
"The total number of recordings made by the Nation's Forum is unknown. 
The Library of Congress holds fifty-nine examples in a collection that 
has been assembled over a period of years from a variety of donors and 
record collectors. Of the fifteen 1918 recordings at the Library of 
Congress, the Pershing/Gerard record is an original shellac disc, eleven 
records are modern vinyl test pressings struck from original masters, 
and two recordings are audio tape dubs. Of the forty-four recordings 
from the 1919-1920 series at the Library of Congress, twenty-four are 
original shellac discs, seventeen are modern vinyl test pressings struck 
from original masters, and three are audio tape dubs."

As I previously mentioned, the vinyl tests are probably from the A.F.R. 
Lawrence collection he made while culling the Columbia Bidgeport archive 
back in the 1960s and we can't be sure whether the metals of these were 
slated for retention or destruction.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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> The article was in The Discographer which is an offset stapled pub that is UNDATED but was edited by Jim Bedoian who runs Take Two records.
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> I'll see if I can scan it later this week into a pdf and then I can share by email for those interested.
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> Steve Ramm
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>> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:06:19 -0400
>> From: jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu
>> To: 78-l at 78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Nations Forum Records
>>
>> Steve Ramm wrote:
>>> One of the experts on the Nation's Forum label was my (late) best
>>> friend, and fellow record collector (known to many of you), Dave
>>> Goldenberg. Dave authored one of the best artcles on this label - with
>>> illustrations for a small journal called "the Discographer".
>> It would be interesting to see a complete list of records issued on the
>> Nation's Forum label. I have the numbered records from 1 to 26, as well
>> as a couple that bear only matrix numbers. But I suspect there are more.
>>
>> -- Jack Raymond