| mister_tmg
Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points |
Mike Wilson1 wrote:
I use it sometimes as a "guide" but with so many errors in it I do not trust all the info at all....They have not checked the information....When the book came out I contacted the publisher with a list of 292 "Facts" that they had got wrong that were not just typos and they said that they would put this right in future editions.....The fact that there never was a future edition could mean that several buyers thought the same as me and failed to recommend the book to others....It is where they mention a record that nobody has ever owned, seen or heard !!.....I am trying to get all the ones that I do not have from the War Years 1940 -1945....I have a lot of them but there are those in my list that I either cannot find or never had....I use other lists and books as well so I think I've got it pretty well nailed on though am always open to be told otherwise.....The ones that you will kindly copy for me will help a lot
Gosh… 292 errors! I would be interested in your list. I wonder how many records have the wrong catalogue numbers, and what explains the mystery Adelaide Hall 78. Perhaps they meant the RAF version? You would think that the information would have been checked.
If a record is that hard to find, surely it cannot have been a top seller!
The book seemed to go out of print quite quickly. I’m not sure why it’s now so hard to find. I disregarded the book when it came out, but then regretted it, by which time it was no longer on sale. A fellow researcher tracked one down for me recently though. I suppose it’s an interesting guide to what was selling, but not “official” like the contemporary charts. It shouldn’t be taken as gospel. I don’t see why they couldn’t publish the book again though.
I just wonder about the records in your list which are not in the Waters book… why them?
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