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THE VICTOR DISCOGRAPHY:
Special Labels, 1928–1941

By John R. Bolig
ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

An intriguing guide to some of the most collectible RCA and Victor products, compiled from the original company documentation in the Sony archives (New York).

This latest addition to the Victor Discography Series covers:

Client and Budget Labels (Aurora, Electradisk, 4-H, Fox Movietone, Sunrise, Timely Tunes, and Yorkville); Theater Records (Pict-Ur-Music,Special Effects, Theatre Records, and more); "Program Transcription" Long-Playing Records (with complete data on masters used for dubbing); Picture Discs; Talking Books (the first RCA-produced issue); and Advertising Records (specials for the Sale Department, RCA Radio Advertising Spots, and more.

From opera to the blues, this new volume has something of interest to every collector of vintage Victor recordings.

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496 total pages
6" x 9" hardcover
(Cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9852004-9-7

PSEUDONYMS ON AMERICAN RECORDS, 1892–1942

Third Revised & Expanded Edition

By Allan Sutton
ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

The labels sometimes lie. Since 1990, Pseudonyms on American Records has been helping dealers and advanced collectors avoid costly mistakes and spot the hidden treasures.

Now it's back, in a fully revised and expanded edition that includes 62 additional pages of pseudonym listings, along with other new features. More than 6,200 aliases are unmasked on 17,000 cylinders, 78s, and transcriptions in all genres, from jazz and blues to opera — and now including American-produced ethnic and export records.

An important new feature is the addition of source citations for each entry — whether from original company files or other archival materials, correlation with corresponding non-pseudonymous issues, aural evidence, or reports from trusted secondary source.

Also included are a cross-reference listing by artist; recording artists’ birth, legal, or married names; historical introduction; and user’s guide.
  

Recent Release

AJAX RECORDS: A HISTORY
AND DISCOGRAHY

By William R. Bryant with the
Record Research Associates

Edited and annotated by Allan Sutton

Ajax has been called “the forgotten race-record label.” Founded by the son of Gramophone inventor Emil Berliner, and manufactured in Canada for the American market, it survived for only two years, including a brief and less-than-successful excursion into the pop market.

Although Ajax never rose to the level of Okeh, Paramount, or other emerging leaders in the race-record field, these now-rare records are prized by collectors today.

The discography was compiled by the late Bill Bryant, who completed the work begun by a group of prominent U.S. and Canadian discographers affiliated with Record Research magazine. Now newly updated, the wealth of detail (much of it previously unpublished, or available only in out-of-print works) sheds new light on this sometimes-overlooked artifact of the 1920s “blues craze.”

608 total pages
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)
ISBN 978-0-9852004-8-0

Recent Release

THE VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY, Volume IV

Complete 22000, 23000, 24000, V-38000, V-38500, and V-40000
Series  (1929–1935)

By John R. Bolig

This 608-page special combined volume covers some of Victor's rarest and most sought-after 78 records, including the Depression-era "hot dance," race, and country-music series.

Like all volumes in the Victor Discography, this one was compiled from original source materials at the Sony Archives, revealing exactly what is (and is not) included in the Victor files. Those materials were carefully correlated with the original catalogs, supplements, and the discs themselves, as well as original Gramophone Company file data. To preserve the integrity of the original file data, no anecdotal or speculative material appears.

Includes introduction, user's guide, and artist and title indexes.

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New Revised & Expanded Edition

PARAMOUNT’S RISE AND FALL: The Roots and History
of Paramount Records
  
By Alex van der Tuuk

"Invaluable... It's exciting to have this essential book available again"
  — Samuel Charters, author of The Country Blues

 
282 total pages • 149 illustrations
6" x 9" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9852004-2-8

ARSC 2014 Award for Excellence  

EMERSON RECORDS: A History and Discography

Part 1: Complete 10" & 12" Issues

Data compiled by William R. Bryant
Edited and annotated by Allan Sutton

Covering all 10: and 12" Emerson series (including ethnic), along with detailed listings for corresponding issues on other American labels.

360 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9852004-5-9

COLUMBIA MASTER RECORDING DATES:
The Electrical Era, 1925–1934

Compiled from the Columbia source materials
by Allan Sutton

Locations and exact recording dates for more than 15,000 master numbers, including the 140000, 150000, 980000, 990000, 236000, 250000, 255000, 265000, 351000, 365000, and 71000 series.

 
180 total pages
6" x 9" quality softcover
  

ISBN 978-0-9852004-7-3

AMERICAN RECORD CORPORATION MASTER RECORDING DATES, 1929–1938
  
 
Compiled from the ARC source materials
by Allan Sutton

Locations and exact recording dates for more than 21,000 master numbers appearing on Banner, Conqueror, Oriole, Perfect, and other ARC brands, as well as ARC-produced Brunswick and Columbia issues.

188 total pages
6" x 9" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9852004-3-5

BERLINER GRAMOPHONE RECORDS IN AMERICA:
A New Discography
  
By Paul Charosh

An affordable revised edition of Paul Charosh's original Berliner discography,
with 24 pages of rare Berliner advertising.

280 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9852004-1-1

ARSC 2013 Certificate of Merit

THE AMERICAN ZONOPHONE DISCOGRAPHY
  
Volume I: Ten- and Twelve-Inch Popular Series (General Catalog, 1904–1912)

By William R. Bryant

360 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9852004-0-4
  

A PHONOGRAPH IN EVERY HOME
The Evolution of the American Recording Industry,
1900–1919

By Allan Sutton

"In the burgeoning field of teaching sound-recording history, Sutton's work will be a boon" — ARSC Journal

328 total pages • 100 illustrations 
6" x 9" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9825595-2-9

RECORDING THE ’TWENTIES
The Evolution of the American Recording Industry,
1920–1929
  
By Allan Sutton

"Sets the bar for all future studies" — Vintage Jazz Mart

"Brilliantly original"  — ARSC Journal

360 total pages • 50 illustrations
6" x 9" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9772735-8-4

RECORDING THE ’THIRTIES
  
The Evolution of the American Recording Industry,
1930–1939

By Allan Sutton

240 total pages • 65 illustrations
6" x 9" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9825595-6-7

THE VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

Volume I: 16000 and 17000 Series

By John R. Bolig

472 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9772735-7-7
 

THE VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

Volume II: 18000 and 19000 Series

By John R. Bolig
 

436 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)
  
ISBN 978-0-9772735-9-1
 

Victor scroll-label design used with
permission of Sony Music Enterprises
 

THE VICTOR BLACK LABEL DISCOGRAPHY

Volume III: 20000 and 21000 Series

By John R. Bolig  

  

424 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9825595-1-2

THE VICTOR DISCOGRAPHY: Green, Blue, and Purple Label Series, 1909–1927

By John R. Bolig

268 total pages
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 0-9772735-2-0

THE VICTOR RED SEAL DISCOGRAPHY

Volume I (Single-Sided, 1903–1924)

By John R. Bolig

448 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 0-9671819-8-4



 

THE VICTOR RED SEAL DISCOGRAPHY

Volume II (Double-Sided Issues to 1930)

By John R. Bolig

624 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 0-9772735-5-5



 

 
ARSC 2012 Certificate of Merit

INDESTRUCTIBLE AND
U-S EVERLASTING CYLINDERS
  
An Illustrated History and Cylinderography

By Kurt Nauck & Allan Sutton

 
288 total pages • 50 illustrations (24 pages in color)
6" x 9" hardcover with dust-jacket

ISBN 978-0-9825595-7-4

ARSC 2014 Certificate of Merit  
  
EDISON AMBEROL CYLINDERS: Complete U.S. and Foreign Issues, 1908–1913
  
Compiled from Edison company documentation
by Allan Sutton

256 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9852004-4-2

Revised and Expanded Edition

EDISON BLUE AMBEROL CYLINDERS

The Complete Cylinderography: U.S., Foreign, and
Special-Use Issues (1912–1929)

Compiled from Edison company documentation
by Allan Sutton

448 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9822595-0-5

LITTLE WONDER RECORDS
AND BUBBLE BOOKS

An Illustrated History and Discography

By Tim Brooks with Merle Sprinzen
  

232 total pages • 50 illustrations 
7" x 10" quality softcover

ISBN 978-0-9825595-9-8

THE EDISON DISCOGRAPHY:
The Final Years, 1926–1929

Diamond Discs, Needle Types, 20- and 40-Minute Records, Samples, Experimentals, Radio Transcriptions, and Special-Use Recordings

By Raymond R. Wile

472 total pages • Illustrated
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9772735-8-4

Final Clearance –
Very Limited Quantities

THE AMERICAN STAGE PERFORMERS
DISCOGRAPHY • Vol. I (1891–1932)

Actors, Vaudevillians & Musical Comedy Stars

By Allan Sutton

Detailed discographies and capsule biographies of more than 450 major, minor, and obscure performers, from the legitimate theater to vaudeville and burlesque.

424 total pages
7" x 10" hardcover (cloth library binding)

ISBN 978-0-9772735-6-0

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JAZZ & RAGTIME RECORDS, 1897–1942

The Classic Jazz Discography
(6th Edition) — Details on over 32,000
Jazz and Jazz-Related Recordings

By Brian Rust

A Mainspring Press Digital Exclusive • Out-of-print in book form

CD-ROM
  

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THE RAGTIME DISCOGRAPHY, 1894 – 1960

Cakewalks, Rags and Novelties on Cylinders and 78s

By Allan Sutton

Includes thousands of additional records not listed in Rust — Plus 98 historic recordings in MP3 format and high-resolution scans of more than 50 rare
sheet music covers

CD-ROM • ISBN 978-0-9825595-8-1

 
NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS AND
NEW PHONIC RECORDS

A History and Discography

By Allan Sutton

CD-ROM • ISBN 978-0-9825595-5-0

ARSC Award for Excellence

MONTGOMERY WARD RECORDS
 
A History and Discography – Complete
RCA, Decca, and Varsity Series

By Allan Sutton

CD-ROM
  

VICTOR RECORDS MONTHLY CATALOG SUPPLEMENTS
Volume I  (1904 - 1905 - 1906)

Contains more than 400 carefully restored covers and pages in high-resolution
JPG format

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