Let us know when you list them.I actually have a lengthy classical 78 want 
list.Some,like the Furtwangler Tchaikovsky,and Beethoven on on Victor (Late 
30s/early 40s.),just because I have never been able find copies that do not have 
at least one missing or broken record.If you have any of the 1938-39 Victors by 
Charles Munch,anything by De Sabata,Knappertsbusch,the Von Sauer Liszt on the 
78s,or this
http://www.archive.org/details/WeinbergerUnderTheSpreadingChestnutTree on the 
original 78s,I would really want it.

I just bought my first original Thomas Beecham 78 from the 1910s.I know somebody 
here once mentioned a complete discography published in the 70s.I would be 
interested in seeing the pages devoted to the acoustic,and early electrical 
records. 


 
Thanks,
Roger





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From: Dr. Cheryl Thurber <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Fri, August 13, 2010 9:01:56 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Victor and Columbia New Records brochures 
1938-1942/Classical

I recently acquired a large number of record company New Records monthly 
brochures from the period 1938-1942, mostly 1940 and 1941. The majority of them 
are for classical recordings. I will be selling them but I am trying to get some 
idea of how common they are, and the frequency that they turn up. As well as the 
interest in them.  I have collected records for many years and I have very 
seldom seen these, although I admit I have mostly looked for ephemera related to 
 the various popular record styles. But I know these turn up less often than 
actual catalogs. These are one or two color brochures usually a large sheet 
folded into a small brochure, although some are stapled, with photographs and 
descriptions of records. All are VG to Like New. The majority are Victor, and 
also a large batch of Columbia, with a scattering of others and some popular.  
Some have stores printed or stamped on them, mostly Los Angeles. I have a little 
over 100,  about 80
classical ones with some duplication. I will probably bring the duplicates and 
the popular music ones (some nice Decca ones) with me to the Baltimore 78 club 
meeting on Sat. But the other classical I will probably sell in groups. I am 
actually an Amazon seller and I don't like selling on ebay so I have not decided 
yet how I am going to sell them. 

 
Looking at these raises the question for me of how much work has been done on 
classical music discography? I am familiar with Jazz, Blues, Country, 
Entertainment, Dance and Gospel discographies for the pre-war period. But what 
about classical is there work being done, or is it part of label discography? I 
know that most classical 78s fall into the swill category and the preference is 
for scarcity or better sound quality of later periods. But still there should be 
discography work. 

 
Cheryl Thurber
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