[78-L] Victor release date

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Richard Harnett. Wirespeak: Codes & Jargon of the News Business

http://www.deadmedia.org/notes/25/257.html

http://www.radions.net/philcode.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rodger Holtin [mailto:rjh334578 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 09:58 PM
To: '78-L Mail List'
Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor release date

Michael,".... Oy. List, something happened in my post...."Exactly why I'm back to yahoo from gmail, but I digress...Thanks for the info about the "Wirespeak." I'll bet this really is a fascinating subject.My, my - the things ya learn by collecting 78s! (now we're back on topic) RodgerFor Best Results use Victor Needles..________________________________ From: Michael Shoshani To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:25 AMSubject: Re: [78-L] Victor release date 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.MSOn 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  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>> _______________________________________________> 78-L mailing list> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l> _______________________________________________> 78-L mailing list> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l>_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l