[78-L] Victor release date

[Michael Shoshani]

Oy. List, something happened in my post and I didn't see it until just 
now because my own posts don't get echoed back to me. The attribution 
carats were stripped from Dr. Biel's part: the "Those strange words" 
paragraph is his, the "Edison also did this" is mine.

There are actually books you can find in libraries that go through this 
code structure, actually. "Wirespeak" and others. Wire services in 
particular had thick handbooks that had entire phrases distilled down to 
single nonsensical words, so that the skeleton of a story could be 
transmitted for rewrite without incurring crushing telegram charges.

MS

On 11/20/2013 11:28 PM, Rjholtin wrote:
> 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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