Re: [ARSCLIST] Looking for recording date

[Peter Hirsch <punto@xxxxxxxx>]

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
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> From: "digest Peter Hirsch" <phirsch@xxxxxxxx>
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> 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