The 78rpm Home Page - General Discographies

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...Online The LOC (Library of Congress) has a their entire collection of 78s listed online. The Online Discographical Project has hundreds of thousands of 78 listings by label. J. Reidy has made the above hundreds of thousands of 78's searchable! New York Recording Laboratories of Port Washington, Wisconsin: Paramount, Broadway, Famous, and Puritan. Jazz Record Label Listings 78 Label Picture Project

...In Book Form

• American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942 (2 volumes) - by Brian Rust - Arlington House Publishers
• Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942 - 3rd Edition (a new edition is imminent)- by RMW Dixon & J Godrich (1982)
• British Dance Bands on Record 1911-1945 - by Brian Rust and Sandy Forbes - Storyville, 1989(?)
• British Music Hall Discography - by Brian Rust
• Canadian Jazz Discography (1916-1980) - by J. Litchfield (1994?)
• Complete Entertainment Discography - by Brian Rust - 2nd Edition. Arlington House Publishers, 1989
• Ethnic Music on Records - A Discography of Ethnic Recordings Produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942, - by Richard K. Spottswood - 7 vols. University of Illinois Press at Urbana, 1990
• The Jazz Discography (26 volumes + CD-ROM) - by Tom Lord - Lord Music Reference, pubs., 1995-2002. Obtain earlier volumes (1-25) from Cadence/North Country Distributors. The CD-ROM should be in every collector's library.
• Jazz Discographies (19 volumes - 2 Modern, 12 Swing, 5 Progressive - thru 1980) - by Walter Bruyninckx
• Jazz Records 1897-1942 - by Brian Rust. This is the bible of pre-'42 jazz record collectors. A newly edited and typeset edition, edited by Malcolm Shaw with input from John R. T. Davies, Howard Rye, and other experts in the field, was just released! Be sure to purchase the accompanying index volume.
• Jazz Records 1942-1980 (2 volumes) - by Jorgen Grunnet Jepsen
• Jazz Records 1942-1980 (11 volumes and counting for the revision to the above) - by Erik Raben and Ole J. Nielsen - 1995/6
• Joyce Discographies (One discog per artist) - obtainable from Joyce Record Club Publications Division of the Metolius Music Company, Box 25802, Portland, OR. 97298. Telephone and FAX: 503-292-2281.
• Moanin' Low - a listing of all female popular vocal recordings made 1920-1933 - by Ross Laird. Greenwood Press, 1997
• New Hot Discography (Latest edition is 1948 - 3rd printing) - by Charles Delaunay - Criterion Music Corp, Publisher, 1963
• New Orleans, The Revival - by Tom Stagg and Charlie Crump - Bashall Caves Publication, 1973
• World's Encycopedia of Recorded Music (reasonably complete listing of ALL electric classical issues worldwide 1925-1955) - Greenwood Press
• The Orchestra on Record, 1896-1926: An Encyclopedia of Orchestral Recordings Made by the Acoustical Process by Claude Graveley Arnold, C.S.B. - Greenwood Press, 1997

More about 78s...

• Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Guide (II) (Mostly pre-1943) - by Steven C. Barr - Yesterday Once Again Pub., 1992
• The American 45 and 78 Rpm Record Dating Guide, 1940-1959 - by William R. Daniels - Greenwood Publishing Group, 1985
• Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 by Frank Hoffmann and Tim Gracyk - Haworth Press, 2000
• Date About all Those English Seventy-eights - by Eddie Shaw - published by the author, 1995
• American Record Label Directory and Dating Guide (Post 1940) - by G. Gart (1994?)
• American Premium Record Guide (1900-1965 values, 78,45,LP) - by Les R. Docks - 6th Ed. - Books Americana, 2001
• American Record Label Book (pre-1943) - by Brian Rust - Arlington House Pub., 1978
• The Collector's Guide To Victor Records - by , in collaboration with William R. Moran and Kurt R. Nauck III - Monarch Record Enterprises, Dallas, 1992). Read our review.
• Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 volumes of lists) - by Roger D. Kinkle - Arlington House Pub., 1974)
• Dance bands, Big Band and Swing: Buyers-Sellers (values) - by Alice Rogers - Jellyroll Productions, 1993
• Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943, - by Allan Sutton (2000). Co-authored by Kurt R. Nauck III, it includes a CD-ROM (Windows only) containing 1,114 searchable, full-color label illustrations. This is the replacement work for "American Record Label Book"
• Guide to Pseudonyms on American Recordings, 1892-1942, - by Allan Sutton (1993)

There are lots of fine 78 Publications and Periodicals to be had, too.

Another good source is Arthur L. Newman 10325 Elk River Ct. Fountain Valley, CA 92708-5924 (714)968-3706. He specializes in jazz and blues.

Nauck's has a good selection of books as well as Amazon.com.

ADDALL.COM searches about 50 web sites covering thousands of book sellers with one press of a button, sorting by price.

Europeans may also want to try Birgit Lotz Verlag, Jean Paul Str.6, 53173 Bonn, Germany. T:0049-228-352808. F:0049-228-365142. They publish discographies and bio-discographies and offer hard-to-get books. Their biggest ongoing project is the German National Discography.

More links to identification materials on antique phonographs and records are available at http://members.aol.com/allenamet/PhonoBooks.html and http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Choir/2982/.

Some of the publishing companies are now online, like Greenwood.

Some information courtesy Howard F Rasch, 5956 Livernois Road, Troy, MI 48098, Colin Bray, and Philippe Varlet

This list is by no means exhaustive. Additions/corrections welcomed. Reviews of some of these items will be posted as time permits. How would you like to do a review? What an offer!
Gary Herzenstiel