The link to archive.org seemed to get URL encoded, and therefore did not
work for me.

try: 
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject:%22Phonograph+Monthly+Review%22&sort=date


On 10/29/16 4:39 PM, Dennis Rooney wrote:
> I corroborate Steve Smolian's assertion about Rob Darrell's claim to have
> written most of the PMR "including most of the correspondence columns"
> which he wrote in a letter to me in 1959. That was one year after I
> discovered the magazine at the Philadelphia Free Library. I'm delighted to
> learn it is now available electronically, but I can only say it was more
> fun to turn the pages oneself.
>
> DDR
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:15 PM, John Haley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Interesting background, Steve.  Thanks for that.  I recall reading columns
>> by R.D. Darrell in either High Fidelity or Hi-Fi Stereo Review when I was
>> growing up.  Those magazines were competitive and actually ran good,
>> serious record reviews, or at least I thought so then.  I think I learned a
>> lot reading them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Haley
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was told by R.D. Darrell that he wrote almost all of every issue under
>>> various names since Axel Johnson was a wealthy alcoholic and had also
>> been
>>> hurt in an auto accident.
>>>
>>> Darrell gave a presentation at an ARSC conference many years ago.  I
>> don't
>>> know if there is a tape of it.
>>>
>>> Darrell was one of the fathers of discography.  As an employee of "The
>>> Gramophone Shop" in New York, he nor only put together the Gramophone
>> Shop
>>> catalogs of 1930 and 1931 (I think those are the right years) but also
>> the
>>> 1936 Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia, the work I consider the most
>>> foundational  publication in the history of discography, Delaunay
>>> notwithstanding.
>>>
>>> The" Phonograph Monthly Review" was the first American record review
>>> magazine.  It  morphed into "The Music Lover's Guide" and "The American
>>> Music Lover." In  In turn, it became "The American Record Guide"  which
>>> continues to this day.   I think I've got this right- access to my fil of
>>> these is presently blocked.  These are primarily classical  but
>> selectively
>>> covered most other musics as well.
>>>
>>> Steve Smolian
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Phonograph Monthly Review
>>>
>>> An excellent backgrounder on PMR, thank you. I began reading it a decade
>>> ago at the Boston Public Library, which has an impressive historical
>>> collection of such magazines (PMR, Etude, Diapason etc.). Besides having
>>> covered the topics described, the staff also from time to time undertook
>> to
>>> evaluate reproduction gear. A couple years ago I wrote a column on that
>>> topic, with an emphasis on how like today's high-end audio writers the
>> PMR
>>> people sound. In other words, measurements were not performed (were
>> indeed
>>> well-nigh impossible) so they relied on the ear alone. Here it is:
>>> http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue78/cj_gramophone.htm As it happens
>>> the magazine was published in my neighborhood so I included photography
>> of
>>> the houses.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Mason Vander Lugt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The National Recording Preservation Board has posted Phonograph
>>>> Monthly Review to Archive.org. Phonograph Monthly Review was a
>>>> magazine about records of classical music, published 1927-1932, and
>>>> was important in the formation of record collecting culture. I've
>>>> written a post about the magazine for the ARSC blog, which you can see
>>>> by clicking the link below, or go directly to the magazines using the
>>>> link below that. Enjoy!
>>>>
>>>> http://arsc-audio.org/blog/2016/10/27/phonograph_monthly_review/
>>>>
>>>> https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject3A%
>>>> 22Phonograph+Monthly+Review%22&sort=date
>>>>
>>>> Mason Vander Lugt
>>>> Recorded Sound Processing Technician
>>>> National Recording Preservation Board Assistant National AV
>>>> Conservation Center Library of Congress
>>>> (202) 707-0358
>>>>
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