[78-L] HMV 216000 series questions

[Han Enderman]

This list shows for the 2 last issues mentioned:
588  Frances James; Cradle Song/In the Garden I love
589    "                 "       Voyageur Song/Mountain Stream
 
I sent Harold images of 2 labels, by Frances James / Soprano with piano:

216588-B = 1. Where Do They Go? 2. Sleep Baby Sleep 3. The Quest (from "New Canadian Song Series").
216589-A = 1. The Mermaid 2. The Meeting of the Waters (from "New Canadian Song Series"
and the "Singing Period").

How can the Moogk titles be explained?

Additional question:
What is the highest cat.nr in this series?

han enderman
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Moogk gives: 
 
216000  not used
...001  Col. John A. Joyce; Love and Laughter (Joyce)/There's no pocket in a shroud - The leaves are falling
127, 130, 209, 307, 311, 312, 427, 433, 440, 478, 507, 512, 513: no listing
519  Sleepy Hall's Melody Boys; I'm afraid of you/In the sweet bye and bye
522  Finlay Campbell; A Mhair Bhan/Irgain Namara
530, 531: no listing
541  Willie Eckstein; I'm All a-Twitter/Wedding of the Painted Doll
542  Bessie Anderson; Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town/Annie Laurie
543  Richard Walker; Until/Because
547  Welsh Imperial Singers; All Through the Night/March of the Men of Harlech
554  no listing
557  Willie Eckstein; My Baby Just Cares for Me/Here Comes the Sun
562  Ye Olde Tyme Village Quartet; O Love that will not let me go/Jerusalem the Golden
563  Joseph Allard; Soldier's Joy/Square Dance
566      "           "      Polo March/Snowshoer's Reel
568  Leon Robert Goulet  Red River Jig/The Western First Chain
574  George Wade and his Corn Huskers; The Chisholm Trail/Mountain High
585  Joseph Allard; St. Patrick's Day Reel/Turkey in the Straw
586  Frederick English; On the Road to Mandalay/Le reve passe
588  Frances James; Cradle Song/In the Garden I love
589    "                 "       Voyageur Song/Mountain Stream
 
Best wishes,
Chris  
- Christopher Steward chris.1picc at yahoo.co.uk 
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From: Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
To: 78-L at 78online.com
Sent: Tuesday, 6 September 2011, 9:36
Subject: [78-L] HMV 216000 series questions

Over the past few days I've been looking over the 216000 series of issues that Berliner 
Gramophone initiated in 1916, primarily using the Virtual Gramophone to determine what
was issued on each catalogue number. Thus far I've found about 34 that are missing 
from the database and I wondered if anyone here might be able to fill in the gaps. I know that a complete list was published in Edward Moogk's "Roll Back the Years", but
I don't own a copy. The numbers below 216500 for which I don't have data are
 
216000 [was this used at all?], 216001, 216127, 216130, 216209, 216307, 216311,
216312, 216427, 216433, 216440, 216478*
 
After this point, issues became markedly less frequent. (The pace had already been
slowing--the series had about 147 releases in 1920 as opposed to just 31 or so in 1924.)
In fact, the release dates provided by the Virtual Gramophone indicate that there were no
new issues at all in 1926 (May 1925 is given for 216502 and July 1927 is given for 216503).
The numbers above 216500 that didn't turn up in my search:
 
216507, 216512-13, 216519, 216522, 216530-31, 216541-43, 216547, 216554, 216557,
216562-63, 216566, 216568, 216574, 216585-86, 216588-89**
 
*216492 also isn't in the database but it's a Joseph C. Smith record, Hello 'Tucky / I 
Love You Best of All. 
 
**216565 only had one of its sides in the database, Sleepy Hollow Jig by A. J. Boulay.
 
There are more missing numbers from the last 20 issues of the series, but I haven't quite
gotten to them yet. Any help with the foregoing, however, will be much appreciated!
 
~HA
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