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ISBN # 978-0-9973333-3-6 Library of Congress Control # 2018960581 Browse the Entry List	American Record Companies and Producers 1888 - 1950 An Encyclopedic History By Allan Sutton ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient More than 1,120 detailed, carefully documented entries cover the record companies, independent studios, and individual producers -- and the thousands of disc and cylinder brands they produced for the commercial market (including consumer, jukebox, and subscription labels) -- from the birth of commercial recording to the start of the LP era. A directory section preceding each entry includes company founding, record-production, and closing dates; office, studio, and pressing-plant locations, with dates of operation; original-master sources; foreign affiliations; and a listing of all commercial labels and other record products. The volume also includes an introductory history of the American recording industry from the 1880s through 1950; user's guide; company timelines and genealogical charts; glossary; extensive references (largely primary-source); and label and subject indexes. 760 pages / 7" x 10" full-cloth hardcover Heavy-duty sewn library binding Special Limited Edition
"A mighty fortress is this book - and it guards an accumulation of knowledge of unparalleled proportions." - Tim Fabrizio, ARSC Journal "Clearly a labor of love, and obviously something that took years to compile. American Record Companies and Producers will forever be the ultimate resource..." - John R. Bolig, author of Caruso Records and The Victor Discographies "I am in awe of the scope, breadth, detail and documentation." - James A. Drake, author of Ponselle: A Singer's Life and Richard Tucker: A Biography
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	CHAMPION RECORDS IDENTIFICATION GUIDE Mainspring Archive Series, No. 1 George Blacker Free personal-use download (pdf)
	SONORA VERTICAL-CUT RECORDS A Preliminary Discography *William R. Bryant, Allan Sutton, et al.* Free personal-use download (pdf)
	HISTORIC MASTERS: AN UPDATED DISCOGRAPHY John R. Bolig Free personal-use download (pdf)
	STAR RECORDS (HAWTHORN & SHEBLE): THE COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY Data compiled by William R. Bryant Edited and Annotated by Allan Sutton Free personal-use download (pdf)
	THE VICTOR MONTHLY SUPPLEMENTS Volume 1: 1904 From the Collection of John R. Bolig Free personal-use download (pdf)
	NATIONAL MUSIC LOVERS AND NEW PHONIC RECORDS Second Edition Allan Sutton Free personal-use download (pdf)
	THE RECORDINGS OF BENIAMINO GIGLI His Master's Voice and Victor, 1918 – 1955 John R. Bolig Free personal-use download (pdf)
	PHONO-CUT RECORDS A Preliminary Discography *George Blacker, et al.* Free personal-use download (pdf)
	RAGTIME ON RECORDS, 1894 - 1950 The Worldwide Discography of Cakewalks, Rags, and Novelties on Cylinders and 78s Allan Sutton Free personal-use download (pdf)
	KEEN-O-PHONE, REX, AND IMPERIAL RECORDS: A HISTORY AND DISCOGRAPHY, 1913 - 1918 George Blacker Edited and Annotated by Allan Sutton Free personal-use download (pdf)
	AJAX RECORDS: THE COMPLETE DISCOGRPAHY, 1923 - 1925 William R. Bryant & The Record Research Associates Free personal-use download (pdf)
	THE VICTOR DISCOGRAPHY: GREEN, BLUE, AND PURPLE LABELS, 1910 - 1926 John R. Bolig Free personal-use download (pdf)
	GEMS: THE VICTOR LIGHT OPERA COMPANY DISCOGRAPHY, 1909 - 1930 John R. Bolig Free personal-use download (pdf)
	COLUMBIA ETHNIC RECORDS: "C" SERIES COLUMBIA ETHNIC RECORDS: "E" SERIES Dick Spottswood Free personal-use downloads (pdf)
	INDESTRUCTIBLE CYLINDERS: COMPLETE U.S. AND BRITISH ISSUES, 1907 - 1921 New Revised Edition Allan Sutton, William R. Bryant & The Record Research Associates Free personal-use download (pdf)
	U-S EVERLASTING CYLINDERS: COMPLETE ISSUES, 1910 - 1913 New Revised Edition Allan Sutton, William R. Bryant & The Record Research Associates Free personal-use download (pdf)
	COLUMBIA, GRAPHOPHONE GRAND, AND BUSY BEE CYLINDERS Complete Catalog Listings (American Series, 1896–1909) This title is currently undergoing revision
	THE VOCALION DISCOGRAPHY Part 1: 14000 SERIES Revised Edition Allan Sutton Free personal-use download (pdf)
	JAZZ AND RAGTIME RECORDS, 1897 - 1942 6th (Final) Edition Brian Rust Free personal-use download (pdf)
	THE OKEH DISCOGRAPHY: VERTICAL-CUT ISSUES, 1918 - 1920 George Blacker Free personal-use download (pdf)

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