[78-L] Melotone Recording Studio, Manhattan

[David Lennick]

I don't know how they stayed in business. Their off-air recordings were some of 
the worst in New York..station drift, misjudged side lengths, the Dyer-Bennet 
recordings I mentioned where the lead-in clobbers the first notes (I checked a 
Dyer-Bennett discography but the matrix numbers appeared to be the usual Asch 
series).

dl

On 3/18/2014 9:55 PM, Joel Bresler wrote:
> Some further information on Melotone and its proprietress.
>
> Melotone Recording Studio, 25 Central Park West, was operated by Mera
> Machnes Weinstock who resided at the same address. She filed a business
> certificate for the studio in 1938. An ad in the New York Times, December
> 11, 1956, offers: "RECORDS, taken in our studio of broadcasts, televisions,
> etc. Several hundred for sale. Melotone, CI 6-1366."
>
> Mera Machnes was born 19 March 1887 in Germany. Married Davis Weinstock;
> died June 1975 while residing in zip code 10023 (which is the same zip as 25
> CPW, though I don't know if she was still living there when she passed.)
> Before her marriage she concertized as a soprano.
>
> Best,
>
> Joel Bresler, Publisher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Bresler [mailto:joel.br at verizon.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 12:56 PM
> To: '78-L Mail List'
> Subject: RE: [78-L] Melotone Recording Studio, Manhattan
>
> Dear friends:
>
> Following up on my message of 2009(!) I am still trying to get information
> on a set of Folk Songs by Sarah Gorby recorded at the Melotone Recording
> studio in Manhattan. Dating these recordings is a matter of some importance
> to friend who is an ethnomusicologist.
>
> You may see a listing about the recordings here: http://tinyurl.com/lsz3bml
> and an example of a label from the series is here
> http://78rpmrecord.com/labelshow.cfm?whichLabel=3608 (thanks to Tyrone
> Settlemier)
> 	
> There are no numbers on the label, but the side I am researching is "Abram
> Avinu", matrix 242A.
>
> Thanks in advance for your insights.
>
> Best,
>
> Joel
>
>
> Joel Bresler, Publisher
> www.sephardicmusic.org
> 250 E. Emerson Road
> Lexington, MA 02420
> United States
>
> 1-781-862-4104 (Telephone&  FAX)
> joel.br at verizon.net
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> P.S.In '09, David Lennick noted:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:05 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Melotone Recording Studio, Manhattan
>
> This Melotone was the one that recorded Florence Foster Jenkins and which
> provided recording services for vanity pressings as well as some commercial
> issues such as a Richard Dyer-Bennet set on Stinson (recorded with
> Melotone's usual incompetence, a wide margin and running onto the label).
> FloJay's highest number is 194 and she died in late 1944, if this helps.
>
> dl
>
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