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Steven Smolian wrote: > Can you supply the matrix numbers? Some records in this series are in > Columbia's dubing maxtrix number series, made years after the original, and > can be misleading. > > Check Spottswood's Ethnic Music on Records. > > Steve Smolian > > > Steve Smolian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "digest Peter Hirsch" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:59 PM > Subject: [ARSCLIST] Looking for recording date > > >> I am trying to determine the recording and issue dates of a Columbia 12" >> 78. The disc has a green label and the catalog number is 55037-F. The New >> York Liederkranz performs Mendelssohn's Der Jaeger's Abschied (Wer hat >> dich >> du schoener Wald) under the direction of C.R. Fuchs-Jerin on one side. I >> have searched all the usual discographies and Columbia catalogs that I >> have >> on hand, but this one just seems to have fallen through some crack >> somewhere. I assume that it is pre-1939, due to the unlikeliness of this >> type record being too popular after the Anschluss. >> >> Anyone know anything about this one? It is in RDI, but the information is >> pretty much transcription-generated gibberish. >> >> Peter Hirsch > > > Steve I believe the matrix number on one side (I don't have it in front of me at the moment, but I did scrawl something on a piece of paper) is 205298. Does that sound like a kosher matrix number for a Columbia 78? Peter