Two collectors have compiled 3000 versions of "Amazing Grace" and
donated them to the Library of Congress. The collectors cataloged the
versions in a Filemaker database. I'd call that a song discography as
they worked for years identify every version ever available. LC
converted the database to MODS catalog records.
There's a good website on the collection
(http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/grace/grace-home.html) but you
can't really examine the discography. You can only search it by
keyword or music genre.
Sam
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Graham McDonald
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> For the past few years I have been working on a discography of Waltzing
> Matilda and presenting a paper on it at the IASA conference in
> Philadelphia in November. I am curious to find any other single song
> discographies out there, but apart from a mention of one from Norway I
> haven't come across any others. I thought the discographical wisdom on
> this list might be able to point me in the direction of any similar work
>
> cheers
>
> graham
>
> Graham McDonald
> Recorded Sound Archivist
> National Film and Sound Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton
> Canberra ACT 2601 Tel: 02 6248 2192
> www.nfsa.gov.au
>
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