[78-L] Dating American Columbias

[David Lennick]

What era? The Greenwood books take you through 1934, Rust's jazz and dance and 
entertainment books through 1942, Lord covers jazz up through yesterday, 
DISMARC will give you information on classical recordings, the various 
discographies of Bennett, Clooney, Sinatra and the like can get you pretty 
close with adjacent numbers.

dl

On 1/10/2012 1:34 PM, Mason Aric Vander Lugt wrote:
> I've had very good luck with Eddie Shaw's DATES (Date About all Those English Seventy-eights) book for dating English Columbia records.
>
> Do any of you know of a similar book for dating American Columbia 78s? 78discography.com, while very good, misses entire series of recordings.
>
> If you haven't read DATES, it simply lists catalog numbers (and prefixes) and gives a list of years the series was published, and which number ranges correspond to which year.
>
> Any help you all can offer in book recommendations or American prefix and suffix meanings would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mason Vander Lugt
> Technical Specialist
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