Re: [ARSCLIST] John Lomax Library of Congress recordings

[steven austin <stevena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you. I'll read with great interest.

Each side of these two discs features a recording from different years
(1940, 1933, 1937, 1938), so these must have been compiled for some
subsequent purpose. Perhaps this was how the Library of Congress
supplied copies of these recordings in the pre-tape era?

Steven

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see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

This library has been re-released in many forms over time. I just
received a CD
of excerpts from it for Christmas.

Cheers,

Richard
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Richard L. Hess
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/


Quoting steven austin <stevena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Greetings again.
>
> Here is the second of two inquiries.
>
> >From some thrift store in the distant past, I acquired two discs from
> "the Library of Congress Recording Library." These were 10-inch discs
> with paper labels. The information on the label notes included (for
> example):
>
> Library of Congress Recording Laboratory
> Division of Music
> "Shack Bully Waking-Up Song"
> Sung by Richard Amersch at Livingston, Alabama
> Part A of 2
> 78RPM
> Order No 1322 A1
> Recorded by John A. Lomax 1937
> AAFS
>
> Could someone recommend a resource for learning more about Mr. Lomax's
> recordings?
>
> Also, can anyone tell me what material may have been used to make the
> discs? This is the sad part of the post. Stacked tightly between other
> records in a temperature stable environment, the discs nonetheless
> deteriorated to the extent that they crumbled upon touch. Hopefully,
> these recordings were duplicated sometime before they found their way
to
> the open market.
>
> Steven Austin
>