[78-L] Victor release date

[Michael Shoshani]

On 11/20/2013 12:52 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Those strange words were used exactly as Rodger indicates.  A dealer
> could telegraph Cyclosis5 Majoic7 franistan9 etc and be charged only one
> word each.  The words made misspellings insignificant because they
> didn't use computers -- they used PEOPLE -- and the words were not easy
> to mistake for the wrong record.

Edison also did this. George Frow reproduces the final Diamond Disc 
release list (on p.89 of my edition) and it gives catalogue number, 
title, artist, and telegraphic code. Thus, No. 52638, Song of the Blues 
/ Broken Idol by the California Ramblers, was ordered by the dealers as 
Eigennutz. 52650, Blue Yodel No. 4 / She's Old and Bent (But She Just 
Keeps Hoofin' Along) by Frankie Marvin, was ordered as Eihaut.

MS