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Steven C. Barr wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "digest Peter Hirsch" <[log in to unmask]> > > >>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. >> >> >The Columbia -F series was used for foreign-language and "ethnic" records, >with a different set of numbers assigned to different ethnic groups. Sadly, >exact dates don't exist in most cases...the sides recorded in the US used >a different matrix series than did the popular records, and those ledgers >seem to have been discarded. > >Columbia issued separate catalogs for each group, and only a handful of >the most generally good-selling items were included in the general >catalogs. To further confuse things, the numeric series were, for the >most part, continued through the CBS takeover of the label. > >There is an outside possibility the disc might be documented in >Spottswood's Ethnic Discography. Beyond that you can only estimate... >if the record bears a CBS-type label (the one used on "red Columbias") >it was pressed sometime after the 1939 takeover, while if it has any >of the earlier label styles those would at least identify the pressing >(but not recording) dates. Likewise, if it bears a 6-digit matrix >number (10xxxx or 11xxxx) it was recorded prior to mid-1934. > >Steven C. Barr > > > > The label is a lovely shade of dull green; most of the other Columbia's I have are blue and frequently have a tri-color sash draped across it. Regards, - Peter