[78-L] Liner notes

[Cary Ginell]

How about liner notes on record labels themselves? Did anything precede King DJ 78s in putting brief biographical info on 78 labels?
 
Cary Ginell
 

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:09:24 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Liner notes
> 
> I'm guessing here but I think they stopped inserting booklets in the early 40s 
> and switched to printing the info on the inside liners. This may have coincided 
> with the cutting the disc prices in half..why give the peasants an expensive 
> printed pamphlet when they had those blank covers they could fill? Obviously 
> there were exceptions, like Decca's cast album booklets, with the inside liners 
> being used for "candid photos of the stars who wished they'd fixed their hair" etc.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 12/19/2011 5:03 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> > 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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> >> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:54 PM
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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.
> >>
> >> 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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