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  5th Dec 2012, 6:11 PM#1  REPORT  
TheJudge

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This will be the 'sticky' post for all useful information links.

Please add any more to this thread. I'll then incorporate them into this post and delete the post which provided it.

Last updated: 25 Jan. 2024. This list is so large, it had to be divided into two posts. Scroll down for part 2.

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Blogs & Podcasts

Earl Okin's Amazing Gramophone Show.
Excavated Shellac Blog ('world' and ethnic music).
Fluff on the Needle.
Oldham Community Radio - The Wireless Programme.
Oldham Community Radio - Vintage Melodies.
The Shellackophile (Classical).
Sound Of The Hound.
Western Swing.

Books & Magazines

Barr, Steven C.: The Almost Complete 78rpm Record Dating Guide.
Bart, Dr. Jan: Discography of The Concertgebouw Orchestra 1926-1989 (originally published with the Philips 2-LP set 6816 102).
Bauer, Robert: The New Catalogue Of Historical Records 1898-1908/09, London 1947.(pdf)
Bennett, John R.: Dischi Fonotipia - A Golden Treasury (Fonotipia label of Italy).
Bennett, John R.: Voices Of The Past - A Catalogue Of Vocal Recordings (Gramophone Co. 1898-1925).
Gracyk, Tim and Hoffman, Frank W.: Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925 (see here.
Kinner, Michael S.: The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings, 1899-1908.
Mitchell, Jack: Australian Jazz On Record.
Rust, Brian: The American Record Label.
Rust, Brian: Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942 (pdf).
Sutton, Allan: Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943.

Charts & Listings

The Britburn Project.
Chart Log UK 1952-1962.
Definite UK Charts 1952-59 (ongoing).
Music Paper No.1s.
Official UK Singles Charts 1952-59.
Official UK Charts - Artist Chart History.

Discographies - Artists & composers
Ben Bernie (pdf)
Bix Beiderbecke
Al Bowlly
Enrico Caruso
Charlie Christian
Perry Como
Bing Crosby
Marlene Dietrich
Tommy Dorsey
Duke Ellington
George Formby
Gilbert & Sullivan
Fred Godfrey
Bobby Hackett
Fletcher Henderson
Jack Hylton (pdf)
Ink Spots
Ted Lewis
Gene Krupa
John McCormack
Peggy Lee
Mantovani
Dean Martin
Nellie Melba
Glenn Miller (search for song titles)
Lee Morse
Édith Piaf
Mel Powell
Django Reinhardt
Artie Shaw
Victor Silvester
Jo Stafford
Slam Stewart
Leopold Stokowski
Richard Tauber

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  9th Sep 2013, 1:30 PM#2  REPORT  
Jock_Girl

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On the listing for Victor 18917, annaloog comments:

78discography.com indicates the A/B matrix nos. as 26546=6 and 26547=3, but I don't see either of these on my copy.

I think it is important to caution that while in general 78discography.com is a useful tool, I found it to be wildly inaccurate at times. For example: They list Victor 19907 as by Ford's Oldtime Orchestra with no clear indication of a and b sides. The correct artist should be Henry Ford's Oldtime Orchestra with Schottische as the A side. This is cross verified here: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/henry-ford-old-time-dance-orchestra-2-records-78

It lists Columbia A2745 as I Ain't Got No Time To Have The Blues when the tile is actually I Ain't'en Got'en No Time To Have The Blues.

There are many other examples of inaccuracies, so I'd advise others to always cross check any info from there and never use it as your only source of info. The person who created it states that he only owns a fraction of the records listed, and as such really can't and shouldn't be considered your best source of info

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  9th Sep 2013, 11:59 PM#3  REPORT  
scrough

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Jock_Girl wrote:
I think it is important to caution that while in general 78discography.com is a useful tool, I found it to be wildly inaccurate at times.
To expand a bit - most of the discographies produced have to rely on catalogues, monthly release supplemements, etc which don't have full details, and performers names and titles are often shortened to fit the available space. So although they are a good guide, the only 100% certainty is the record in your hands.


  25th May 2014, 3:52 PM#4  REPORT  
TheJudge

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Part Two:

Discographies - General

78 Discography (mostly US & Canada)
Bluegrass Discography
British Dance Bands on Record
British Disc Record Labels 1898-1923
Cardboard Records
Cajun Records
Recorded Church Music
Early Record Catalogues (British Library)
Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR)
Party Records
Recorded Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic U (Jazz, Judaic & Vintage)
Black Gospel Discographies
R. Johannesson's Opera Discography
Rock&Country Discography
Rockin' Country Style

General Collectors' / Sales Sites

78Source
French Swap Site (and more) (in French)
Phonodisk

Historical & Technical

CHARM Discographies
History of Sound Recording
Library Of Congress' National Jukebox
Making a Gramophone Amplifier from Junk
Open University - Revolutions In Sound Recording
Plastics in 78s
Roger Wilmut's site
UK Purchase Tax Codes
Markings on 78 rpm Records

International

African, Arabic and more.
www.78rpm.net.nz Australian labels.
australianrecordlabels.com Michael De Looper's Australian labels (1954-80)
Austrian music journals
History of Canadian record companies by Robert Thérien
Cuban Music 1925-1960
Danish Discography
Finnish 78s 1901-1961
Finnish Discography (in Finnish)
German 78s (in German)
Lindström Project: Austrian, German and other discographies (Beka, Odeon, Okeh, Parlophon, Fonotipia, Pathé, Vox, etc.)
Info & scans for various German labels
GDR labels
Icelandic releases
Catalogues for major Italian labels - ICBSA
Discographies of Italian artists, 1920s-1940s
Japanese labels (in Japanese)
Russian records
Scottish Vernacular Discography 1888-1960 (pdf)
Swedish Media Database
Swiss Jazz Discography (pdf)

Labels (specific)

Amiga (GDR)
Amiga (GDR) label styles (GDR)
Berliner/HMV/Victor (Canada)
Bluebird
Capitol Record label designs & dates
Columbia E-Series by R. Spottswood
Columbia A- and E-Series release dates
Decca (US) 7000-series 'Race Music' catalogue
Decca Classical Philip Stuart, Complete Decca Classical Discography
Gramophone Co. & His Master's Voice
The Gramophone Co. of India
Grey Gull & related labels, 1919-1931
HMV 'B' Series 1912-1958
London (UK) (partial)
(Note: Rateyourmusic with partial discographies for other labels)
Majestic (US) and some others
Odeon
Parlophone 'Rhythm Style' 1942, 1944 and 1948 on
Peerless Records (Mexico)
Pop Music History (.pdfs of UK Brunswick, Capitol, Columbia, Decca, HMV, London, MGM & Philips)
RCA Italiana (partial)
Tempo (UK) Discographies - 78s, EPs & 45s
US Victor Records on DAHR
Canadian Victor 216000 Series
Victor & RCA Victor Smart Sets
Tim Gracyk's Phonographs - Edison Diamond Discs: 1912 - 1929

Sheet Music
Pop Music History 1946-1959
Pop Music History 1946-1959

Things Which Don't Really Fit Anywhere Else

British shorts & newsreels featuring entertainers & popular song, 1929-49

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Contributors (thanks!):

carryonsidney
charlie chalk
fantasi

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  14th Jun 2014, 6:08 PM#5  REPORT  
Jock_Girl

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Here's a neat little reference guide for RCA Victor (USA and probably Canada) Musical Smart Set albums of 78s

RCA Victor Musical Smart Sets

I am not sure if they distributed the 78s as both individual records as well as the album set, but I do know that the few individual records that have do not always list the smart set catalogue number

Nonetheless -- good stuff

Amy




  17th Oct 2014, 7:58 PM#6  REPORT  
Pridesale

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Dont think I have seen this link
Norman Field's analysis of Stamper and Matrix codes (Particulary Gramophone Company, HMV/Victor and (British) Decca http://www.normanfield.com/markings.htm
[mod: Now at http://early78s.uk/markings-on-78-rpm-records/]

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  26th Oct 2014, 3:03 AM#7  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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Nauck's Vintage Records has a wealth of information of interest to all collectors of 78s, and also shows his recent auction catalogs with hundreds of pages of record listings


  26th Oct 2014, 9:12 PM#8  REPORT  
lorangrecords SUBS

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I know him for some years now, and if they say E it's really E, Very nice seller and honest in his grading.


  26th Oct 2014, 11:48 PM#9  REPORT  
Jock_Girl

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Juke Jules wrote:
Nauck's Vintage Records has a wealth of information of interest to all collectors of 78s, and also shows his recent auction catalogs with hundreds of pages of record listings

Personally I will not deal with him because the way he mixes his political (America first above all others) stances with the hobby of 78s. As a woman, a lesbian, a leftist, a Roman Catholic Christian, and Canadian, I find his rhetoric offensive

Amy

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  27th Oct 2014, 12:32 AM#10  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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I blank that sort of stuff and assume it comes with the territory :cool:


  25th Jan 2015, 9:02 PM#11  REPORT  
Pridesale

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Don't know if this is a re-hash of other links references but with the new TLD names

http://www.78rpm.club/

sort of what it says on the tin


  25th Jan 2015, 11:52 PM#12  REPORT  
Juke Jules SUBS

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Thanks - another useful source!


  29th Jun 2015, 1:31 PM#13  REPORT  
Pridesale

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British Homophone, Cecil Watts/MSS and the invention of the acetates

http://www.ips.org.uk/audiocompendium/index.php?title=British_Homophone_Company
http://www.ips.org.uk/audiocompendium/index.php?title=Watts
http://www.ips.org.uk/audiocompendium/index.php?title=MSS


  16th Dec 2015, 12:08 AM#14  REPORT  
Trainman

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FWIW, I've just started to get to cataloging my 78's, but for US release, the site that seems to me most reliable is the "DAHR" 78 archive maintained by the U. of Cal. Santa Barbara.
http://adp.library.ucsb.edu


  16th Dec 2015, 2:19 PM#15  REPORT  
peterh

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A good site with several gospel discographies including scans at recordconnexion.


  27th Jan 2016, 1:08 PM#16  REPORT  
mister_tmg

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Juke Jules wrote:
I blank that sort of stuff and assume it comes with the territory :cool:

It's a great irony that most of the old collectors are seemingly conservative and right-wing, but the people who are going to keep this stuff going are young liberals.

Perhaps that fate awaits us, Jock_Girl :heehee:

I'm sure I've seen a fair bit of God-related stuff on collectors' personal sites...

Back to the topic:
Official UK Singles Charts 1952-59 - We're sorry, this site is frozen. :shocked:



  31st Jan 2016, 10:02 PM#17  REPORT  
Pridesale

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http://www.oirvm.com/labels_of%20PD.htm
Labelography of Persian78 rpm Records by: Amir Mansour

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  1st Feb 2016, 12:18 AM#18  REPORT  
zabadak

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Pridesale wrote:
http://www.oirvm.com/labels_of%20PD.htm
Labelography of Persian78 rpm Records by: Amir Mansour
Bloddy hell, these are lovely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shocked:


  13th Feb 2016, 8:06 PM#19  REPORT  
xiphophilos

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Great discographical resource, especially, but not exclusively for Danish recordings:
http://www.the-discographer.dk/





  14th Feb 2016, 5:43 PM#20  REPORT  
xiphophilos

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Almost complete listing of East German Amiga releases:
http://www.liedderzeit.de/Platten/amiga.htm

Best site I have found for Hungarian recordings (includes many mp3s):
http://gramofononline.hu/en/

The EARLY BRITISH DISC RECORDINGS 1898-1926 site now has a new url: http://early78s.uk/

Edited by xiphophilos on 14th Feb 2016, 5:48 PM

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