[78-L] HMV 216000 series questions

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Sep 7 09:49:37 PDT 2011


They went electrical with 216500 but continued acousticals for a while with 
217000 and up (about 5 or 6 titles, 217000 unknown per Moogk).

On 9/7/2011 12:31 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> 216587 is the only one listed in the 1939 catalogue (cutoff June 1939). All 4
> discs are shown in the 1940 catalogue (cutoff for black label discs, May 1/40).
>
> dl
>
> On 9/7/2011 11:54 AM, Harold Aherne wrote:
>> 587 and 590 are, but I didn't find the other two (at least by using the "basic search"
>> functions for name and issue number):
>> http://amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone-bin/Main/BasicSearch?coll=24&l=0&v=1
>>
>> Do we have any idea when the Northland Songs were issued? I would presume no later
>> than 1938, as both sides of 592 were recorded on 25 May of that year. Most of the
>> Virtual Gramophone entries for 561 through 591 give only "between 1931 and 1939" for
>> the release date.
>>
>> For the label enthusiasts: 460 was the highest I found that had only "His Master's Voice"
>> and the Berliner Gram-o-phone notation. Everything from 462 upwards seems to have
>> both Victor and HMV at the top of the label as well as "Victor Talking Machine Co. of
>> Canada". (Later pressings of earlier issues also have those phrases.) 500 is the first I
>> saw with the oval VE on the label.
>>
>> -HA
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 9/7/11, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] HMV 216000 series questions
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 9:34 AM
>>
>>
>> If Moogk didn't have the discs, he couldn't rely on the Victor catalogue, which
>> lists all the titles in one bunch as "Northland Songs", 216587/90. It also says
>> "See also Educational Catalogue"..big help. Even the main catalogue gives up
>> and says "Etc" after "Golden Slumbers"..
>>
>> Aren't these possibly in the Virtual Gramophone?
>>
>> dl
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