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| 12th Sep 2022, 3:44 PM | #1 REPORT | |
 | Mike Wilson1 Musicologist Member since Dec 2019 26 Points | Many thanks to the member who sent me a complete recording list of this RAF Forces group that was, to their knowledge, accurate.....However this title was not in the list so it could be doubly suspect as to perhaps wrong title or wrong artists......The book "The Missing Charts" was compiled by amalgamating sheet music sales with record company entries and as such was given a catalogue number but alas, no member has come across it despite delving into barns and cellars....last chance saloon on this one as I am ready to give up on it...... The Man Who Came Around - Squadronaires Decca F 7480 |
| 7th Sep 2023, 5:28 PM | #2 REPORT | |
| Mike Wilson1 Musicologist Member since Dec 2019 26 Points |
Mike Wilson1 wrote:
Many thanks to the member who sent me a complete recording list of this RAF Forces group that was, to their knowledge, accurate.....However this title was not in the list so it could be doubly suspect as to perhaps wrong title or wrong artists......The book "The Missing Charts" was compiled by amalgamating sheet music sales with record company entries and as such was given a catalogue number but alas, no member has come across it despite delving into barns and cellars....last chance saloon on this one as I am ready to give up on it......
The Man Who Came Around - Squadronaires Decca F 7480 Happy to say that this mystery is over as that title should have been under The RAF Dance Orchestra as they were not called The Squadronaires at this point in time |
| 13th Sep 2023, 7:44 PM | #3 REPORT | |
 | mister_tmg Also on 78rpm Member since Apr 2012 1118 Points |
Mike Wilson1 wrote:
The book "The Missing Charts" was compiled by amalgamating sheet music sales with record company entries and as such was given a catalogue number
How do you know? I thought the book was based on record company shipping data. |
| 31st Oct 2023, 7:16 PM | #4 REPORT | |
| Whyperion SUBS Too Many Records , Too Little Time Member since Jan 2013 306 Points | Have I explained here how a lot of the inventory management and record company catelogs were created (I think) ? I am pretty certain "Holerith" and other tabulating machinery cards were involved. There would be "static data" relating to the disc content - Cat/Matrix number, title, artist . publishing co and so on. So this data would be read in ( from a operator looking at each card for the disc ) , Orders would simply have a dynamic set of (one time use?) cards with Cat Number and whatever needed on them , run the two sets and create the shipping note/invoice etc and tabulate total sales for the day = create output card of sales for the day + yesterdays sales to date = end of day sales month to date (or re-run the daily sales orders / production information whatever, cross check production-sales = inventory in warehouse. (this could also be done manually) but all stratightforward for mechanical calculating devices that I am sure EMI and Decca would have had. However it is interesting that the likes of Brian Rust / Sandy Forbes never looked at this data source - maybe it had been destroyed and only worked off the books produced (ones sales catelogue would effectively be a Multigraph output from the data cars) , and Rust etc were only concerned with discs and recording dates/ persons rather than total monthly sales by disc. It would have been important to count discs sold - for the purchase tax returns and the royalty payments (though I suppose someone doing simple bar and gate totaling (or count the boxes of 20 discs at a time shipped out ?) could equally run the system |
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