[78-L] Liner notes

[David Lennick]

Actually, notes (can't really call them "liner notes" until they started being 
printed on the actual inside liner in the 40s, whence the term) were included 
in most classical album sets of more than 2 discs from the mid 20s. Some 2-disc 
sets also had them. Even the two ten-inch single discs of Modern Russian Music 
on English Columbia (Iron Foundry etc) had no album but had a paper insert. 
Popular albums from Decca had them in the 30s, popular albums from Victor and 
Columbia initially had them only if the recordings were a significant set like 
the Bix Memorial Album, the Hal Kemp Memorial etc.

dl

On 12/19/2011 4:15 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>
> Thanks, Ted, David&  Mike for valuable information about early liner
> notes in albums.
>   From the examples given I conclude that liner notes were still
> exceptions in the early 78 rpm era. Could the same be said for the
> 1940's? Or did information about songs, artists, composers etc. become
> standard any time before the LP era?
> I'm also curious about the number of albums released each year, compared
> to singles. Capitol, for instance, released about 150 albums during the
> May 1945-mid 1949 period (before the LP album) and about 750 singles
> during the same period, which makes the album/single ratio about 1/5.
> What about other major companies and their popular music series? Anyone
> for a guess?
> Kristjan
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