[78-L] Early Philippine Recordings

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jul 12 21:22:24 PDT 2013


This is a request for information. Can anyone help?

On 7/12/2013 1:46 AM, April Sta. Maria-Villasquez wrote:
> I'm gathering materials for my upcoming Ph.D. dissertation and
> focusing on 78rpm record labels in the Philippines.  So far I found around 40+
> labels, the earliest recording was Maria Carpena, a Philippine Zarzuela artist
> who recorded for Victor Records way back 1908.  I saw the recording in person
> (recorded it as well) from a local record collector.  As much as I'd like to
> cross-reference to the Library of Congress National Jukebox website, they just
> mentioned that it's not available.

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This may be one of the first projects on early recordings in the Philippines. 
Anyone have any leads?

Thanks
DL


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