[78-L] NYC record store labels - Schirmer, Rabson's Music Box, Gramophone Shop, LMS, others?

Thomas Stern sternth at attglobal.net
Sat Sep 8 12:32:03 PDT 2012


Gramophone Shop issued L'ANTHOLOGIE SONORE series.
Best wishes, Thomas.

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Schirmer was really a publisher label, and did light jazz and classical..two
albums of Rudolf Friml, a couple of Dana Suesse sets, Benjamin Britten playing
Balinese music, quite a wide variety in fact. Nocturne seems to have been
related to Schirmer, although that may just be coincidental since most of us
have seen only one Nocturne 78, Swinging The Jingle (a jazzed-up Pepsi Cola spot).

Gramophone Shop Varieties did 2 singles by Beatrice Lillie, two albums of Alec
Templeton, Reginald Gardiner's "Trains", one disc by composer-pianist Alex
Fogarty which I've never seen, and a 12-incher of Sarah Bernhardt from
cylinders. That may be the entire GSV catalogue.

There were historical classical recordings issued by some of the specialty
shops as well.

dl

On 9/8/2012 2:53 PM, Philip Fukuda wrote:
> Every so often, I'll run into one of these New York City store labels.
>
> I'm most familiar with Liberty Music Shop. I have Jack Raymond's LMS listing, so I know LMS specialized in society bands, show
tunes, adult humor and limited jazz (Casper Reardon, Lee Wiley). I'm guessing they focused on a "sophisticated" clientele. My
question concerns label chronology. Which ones came first? I've seen several, with different store addresses.
>
> For Schirmer, I only have a handful of issues, again Lee Wiley and Casper Reardon. How long did they issue records? Does anybody
have a listing?
>
> For Rabson's Music Box, I only have one Lee Wiley. Again, how long did they issue records? Does anybody have a listing?
>
> For Gramophone Shop, I only have several Alec Templetons on Gramophone Shop Varieties. I know there was a Beatrice Lillie as
well. Again, how long did they issue records? Does anybody have a listing?
>
> Are there other New York City record stores that issued 78s (other than Commodore, which is well-documented)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Philip Fukuda
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