[78-L] Liner notes

[David Lennick]

And don't forget the descriptive notes Victor printed on the back of many Red 
Seal Records during the 1910s..on the discs themselves, that is.

I forgot about the 1924 Musical Masterpiece notes on the individual pockets.

dl

On 12/19/2011 12:17 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Liner notes go way back, long before these examples.  In 1917 HMV issued
> a series of operettas and operas with beautifully illustrated covers and
> descriptive notes on the inside front cover.  I can supply photos.  In
> 1924 when Victor began their acoustical Musical Masterpieces series they
> had descriptive notes and photographs on each individual sleeve pocket
> in the albums.  These would discuss the music on the record in the
> sleeve, the performers, orchestra, conductor, composer, etc.  The first
> albums in the electrical era were un-numbered with soft covers in 1926
> and I do not know about notes, but when they started numbering the M and
> C album series in 1928 there were notes on the inside front cover of the
> C series (C-1 Victor Herbert, C-2 Steven Foster), and there might have
> been booklets in the M series like Don described.  I have examples of
> these early albums.
>
> But remember, Edison supplied descriptive folders with Blue Amberol
> cylinders starting in 1912, and when they started discs in 1912 and 1913
> they had notes in the box for the first and glued to the sleeve after
> the first series. All of these were delivered with the records, but
> there were descriptive notes in the monthly supplements going way back,
> and they could have been used by the customers, but only if they got the
> supplement with the records right when they were issued.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
>
>
>    -------- Original Message --------
>   Subject: [78-L] Liner notes
>   From: "Ted Kneebone"<tkneebone1 at abe.midco.net>
>   Date: Sun, December 18, 2011 3:18 pm
>   To: "78-l"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>   Kristian asked about liner notes. One of the first albums
>   I bought was Musorgskii's Pictures at an Exhibition,
>   Koussevitzky/BSO. It had a leaflet with notes about
>   the music. Number was about DM-100, recorded
>   in 1930. The CD that was made from it has no liner
>   notes. I have my notes since I typed them out before
>   sending the discs to a friend.
>   All the other albums I had in my collection had
>   notes pasted on the inside front cover: RCA,
>   Columbia, Musicraft, Decca. The albums dated in the 1930s and 1940s.
>   I gave all but some singles to our local university.
>   Ted
>   Ted Kneebone
>