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Discovered Jazz and Swing in middle school and have been a fan ever since. Collecting 78s, which I started in highschool, has helped me expand my musical horizon. One of my areas of interest is now also the "ethnic" or foreign-language music on shellac that Columbia, Victor, and many other labels produced for immigrants to the United States between the 1910s and 1950s.

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
xiphophilos 8th Feb 2025		78 RPM Mme. Marcella Sembrich - Der Nussbaum	Thanks, Mike. I don't think I've ever noticed such an early custom copy. Pretty cool.
xiphophilos 8th Feb 2025		78 RPM Mme. Marcella Sembrich - Der Nussbaum	The song title, composer, performer, and catalog number have been entered by hand. Is this a test pressing of the regular stock release, which was on red label (it's on Discogs), or is it a custom-made copy of a record no longer in the catalog?
xiphophilos 8th Feb 2025		78 RPM Roman Gosz - Let's Be Happy / Old Bohemian Waltz	I found this record and the recording date of its tracks in Richard K. Spottswood, Ethnic Music on Records, Vol. 2: Slavic, Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990, page 631
xiphophilos 4th Feb 2025		78 RPM Jules Levy - Robin Adair	That later pressing is a 1907 Fleur-de-Lis label with Columbia Phonograph Co. Gen’l on top, listing Grand Prize Paris 1900, St. Louis 1904 and three patent dates (Dec. 10, 1901; Nov. 25, 1902, Jan. 2, 1906). This Fleur-de-lis label is contemporaneous to the 1907 Grand Prize Label (sub-variety 3), see M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 23 combined with page 25.
xiphophilos 3rd Feb 2025		78 RPM Jules Levy - Robin Adair	The label is a 1905 Columbia Fleur-de-Lis label with Columbia Phonograph Co. Gen’l on top, listing only one exposition (Grand Prize Paris 1900), one patent date (December 10, 1901), and New York - Berlin, cf. M. Sherman & K. Nauck, "Note the Notes," page 21 combined with page 25. Between 1904 and 1908, Columbia in the U.S. released foreign-language recordings on the Fleur-de-Lis label if they were drawn from its general catalog and/or recorded in New York City, and on a Statue of Columbia label if they used foreign-made matrices, cf. Mike Sherman & Kurt Nauck, "Note The Notes: An Illustrated History of the Columbia Record Label 1901-1958, Monarch Record Enterprises: New Orleans, LA, 1998, page 25.