[ARSCLIST] Gennett Project update

[Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello folks -

A couple of things:

1) I've now been through all the Gennett recording cards I've been able 
to locate. They physically exist at Rutgers and at the Indiana 
Historical Society. I now have jpg and bmp files of all the cards at 
Rutgers, thanks to the aid of Dan Morgenstern and the patience and 
camera of my co-compiler Charlie Dahan, as well as my own hand written 
notes of all the cards archived in Indianapolis.
These are the covered dates:

NYC:  
May, 1921 - June 1928

Richmond:
August 1921 - January 1922
January 1923 - December 1923
January 1927 - April 1929

If anyone knows of any more cards in public collections or private hands 
I would surely like to know about them. I also still seek any 
information on recordings made in Richmond for the US Starr label 
pre-1919. I have quite a bit, but there are some major gaps yet to fill.

My favorite find? It was the discovery of microphone/musician placement 
diagrams on the backs of some of the cards from Richmond, 1926, when 
Gennett was first engineering recordings electrically. I was stunned and 
pleased, to say the least!

2) One of the cards at Rutgers is a puzzler (just one?).It's mx 8289, 
recorded in NYC at 9 E. 37th Street on June 15, 1920. But, you say, mx 
8289 would be for a recording date on March 21, 1923 - and so it is. But 
it's not the same title or artist and the card gives the 1920 recording 
date, backed up by a copper master shipping date (to Richmond) of June 
19, 1920. The title on the card is is "Underneath The Moon (Waltz)" and 
the artist shows only as "Orchestra." I have found no release of this 
title anywhere in the Gennett catalog. Can anyone explain the anomaly?

Mal Rockwell