----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Biel" <[log in to unmask]> >>> Tom Fine wrote: >>>> Does anyone have a listing or better yet a discography of the >>>> Mercury MG10000 series, the first LP's? > David Lennick wrote: > > > Best place would be the back of one of the old albums, where they > listed available recordings in lieu of liner notes > > From just such an album as I mentioned, which may have been used in > Canada only > Why bother re-inventing the wheel? There IS a discography with a > numerical listing of this and all other Mercury series. Ruppli amd > Novitsky's "The Mercury Labels." This 10000 series is on pages 494 thru > 499 of Volume 5 and the 10-inch 15000 series is on pages 482-3. I'm > surprised that Tom, of all people, doesn't apparently have this > discography set! Actually, I only have volume 4 and 5 which popped up > astonishingly cheap as new loose volumes on a book site last year. Vol > 4 includes the 69-91 era and ALL the classical recordings back to the > beginning. Vol 5 is the numerical listings and artist index. So if I > had to have only two of the five, those were the best to find. I'll be > glad to provide Tom with photocopies of these pages, as keyboarding all > of this on the list would be very time and bandwidth consuming. > I suspect that all too many of our listeners are in the same situation as myself...?! Over the last two or three years, I have seen Gazillions of new discographic works appear...be sold at impressively-low special prices...and then suddenly become "OBSOLETE--NO LONGER AVAILABLE"...meaning one's only choice is to hope to see a seriously- overpriced used copy via eWotsit or equivalent...! ...stevenc