[78-L] How to Date Columbia Stellar Quartette

[David Lennick]

This raises another question, Tim..I've found a few acoustical Columbias, c. 
1923-24, which are pressed after the flag label period and which show no issue 
numbers in the Columbia 1910-1924 book. They're always classical, by people 
like Toscha Seidel and possibly Percy Grainger or Pablo Casals. Were cards 
indicating when they'd been issued in a different chronological part of the files?

Example: 4033M, Toscha Seidel, Polichinelle/Turkish March. Curiously the 
Columbia Book gives the wrong composer for Turkish March, has a date, has the 
accompanist, but has no issue number.

dl

On 7/22/2012 2:18 PM, Tim Brooks wrote:
> Regarding Columbia A5569 (mxs 36944/36945), "Stand Up for Jesus" by Andrea Sarto and "Our King Is Marching On" by the CSQ, this is indeed a rare record. There is apparently nothing about it in the Columbia files (Brian Rust compiled this part of the Columbia Master Book from microfilms of the files), nothing in the Chmura lists, and nothing in Columbia Dealer Numerical Lists of the time. Neither Bill Bryant nor I ever located a copy either, which is why it is not in the CMB.
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> If there is a reference to it being played in January 1914 I would agree that it likely was assigned these matrix and "issue" numbers well after the fact - probably around May 1914, which is where these numbers would fall in numerical sequence. Columbia did that sort of thing from time to time. There's no way to know exactly when it was recorded, however.  - Tim Brooks
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