[78-L] Jim Walsh articles

[Ryan Barna]

David Giovannoni proposed the idea of digitizing Hobbies' music articles (Jim Walsh's, plus Historical Records, Current Collectors' Recordings, and Historical Tape Recordings) and making them available online. The copyright owner (Lightner Publishing Corp.) approved the idea, but David didn't say when these articles will be available. Google Books has also made many of them searchable, but the pages aren't viewable due to copyright restrictions.
 
Not long ago I found a library nearby that has most of the volumes, and I was able to photocopy the remaining articles I needed (I now have every one of them). After reading and reviewing most of them, they all require some kind of annotating and correcting. I think it would be unwise to post these online without some type of addenda, so that someone reading them for the first time doesn't call Peter Bacigalupi's Edison Phonograph Agency as "Bocigalupi Brothers," or still wonder whether or not Atwood Twitchell was a pseudonym for George Alexander (no, Twitchell was real). I would definitely like to assist in doing such a task, if ARSC or some other organization would be willing.
 
(I'd like to do it on my own website Phonostalgia, but my time outside of work and book writing/compiling is very limited nowadays.)
 
I know that Record Research (and some Hobbies magazines) have turned up in auction lists in the last few years, including Nauck's and Hawthorn's. I bought most of my Hobbies magazines in bulk on ebay years ago, but I've seen very few specific issues of Record Research for sale -- I was able to inspect the issues I wanted at the New York Public Library, but I know not everyone has access to them.
 
You may want to check with your nearby library, and fill out an Interlibrary Loan request for Hobbies and Record Research. I've done this many times for books and other sources I couldn't easily obtain.
 
-Ryan
(I don't use the Interlibrary Loan system much anymore since going to the libraries who have them are faster. More expensive, but faster.)