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[Thomas Stern <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: 	Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:40:01 GMT
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:34:57 -0500
From: Thomas Stern <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [78-l] [Fwd: [ARSCLIST] FW: [MLA-L] Record sales figures from before 
World War II?? (fwd)]

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Date: 	Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:16:01 -0600
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A question one of you discophiles out there could probably answer. I would
assume you might reply directly to the individual, I cannot help but
wonder if many of us on this list might like to know some answers.

Karl

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Subject: [MLA-L] Record sales figures from before World War II??

CW:

Is there any way to obtain sales figures of 78 rpm. records from the 1920s
and 1930s?  I have a patron interested in some rather obscure (or at least
average) country recordings from various labels from this period and
wondered if there is a compilation of the sales of specific records. 

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In researching some early calypso recordings, I noticed that some of the blue cards in BMG archives have notations on the reverse indicating either number of pressings or sales, I can't recall which.  In some cases, the numbers were in the very low hundreds.  Without going through the photocopies I have on hand, I can't advise the chronological period when these handwritten entries appear, but I believe they mostly predate the mid-1930s.

Art

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