[78-L] Victor release date

[Rjholtin]

Ya know, I'll bet there's a list like 78-L for early telegraphy history nuts who would just love to know about these codes

Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng

On Nov 20, 2013, at 9:48 PM, Michael Shoshani <michael.shoshani at gmail.com> wrote:

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

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