VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY Vol. 4 (1929-1935) - FROM ORIG. VICTOR FILE DATA

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OUT OF PRINT / PERFECT, LIKE-NEW COPY

THE VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY, Vol. 4

Complete 22000, 23000, 24000,
V-38000, V-38500, and V-40000 Series

By John R. Bolig
ARSC 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Mainspring Press (2013)

ISBN 978-0-9852004-8-0

590 pages / Full-cloth hardcover
No dust jacket (as issued) – Out of original shrink-wrap, but otherwise like-new

Long out-of-print and highly collectible, this special combined volume details some of rarest and most sought-after Victor records. Like all titles in the series, this one is compiled from the original Victor Talking Machine Co., RCA-Victor, and Gramophone Co. files, combined with careful inspection of the original catalogs and discs. Features include:

• Discographic details of the 22000 and 24000 general-catalog series, plus the complete 23000, V-38000, V-38500, and V-40000 "hot dance," race, and country music series (1929–1935)
     
• Recording dates, recording locations (including relay transmissions), and release dates
     
• Catalog, matrix, and take numbers, including identification and dating of dubbed masters
      
• Listings of all corresponding U.S. and foreign issues, and authorized reissues, in 78 format
       
• Special, alternate, and canceled issues
     
• Conductors, arrangers, band vocalists, and other personnel details from the recording files and other original company documentation — with no speculative or anecdotal personnel listings from secondary sources *
     
• Artist and title indexes, historical introduction, and user's guide

* Until required to do so by new union regulations in the late 1930s, Victor and the other major companies rarely listed individual band members in their recording ledgers or other documentation. Note that most Victor personnel listings in works like Rust’s Jazz Records and Johnson & Shirley’s American Dance Bands are NOT from the original company files — although just where they came from generally is not disclosed in those works. To avoid blurring the lines between fact, speculation, and outright fabrication, personnel shown in publications like JR and ADB — but not confirmed in the original Victor documentation — are excluded from the Victor Discography Series. Only personnel listed in the original company recording ledgers and ancillary materials are shown.

Condition: LIKE NEW

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