[78-L] Liner notes

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

When did Victor & perhaps Columbia stop putting booklets (with liner notes) in the classical music sets? Did they all have them & perhaps lots of the booklets got lost over time?



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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>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.
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>dl
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>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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