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Re: [ARSCLIST] Billboard Charts
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From: "David Lewis" <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> From: "David Lewis" <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > In the 1924 edition of the Rainbow Records catalogue, Homer Rodeheaver
> > listed the top selling 20 records or so from the label. Judging from the
> > frequency of certain surviving Rainbows versus the lack of it for
others,
> I
> > think his list is pretty accurate. Of course, that's one person,
reporting
> > from data collected from his own sales records kept on his own label.
> > Considerably different from what Billboard was trying to do.
>
> Steve Barr wrote:
>
> Any way the pages of this could be scanned and made available? I have a
> number of Rainbow records, including a 12" which may have been a private
> recording...but have never seen, or heard of, a Rainbow CATALOG!
>
> Dave Lewis:
> There are five Rainbow catalogues. I will be including an illustration or
> two from them with the article I am working on for the ARSC Journal. As
far
> as hosting a site where all of this info is available in facsimile, maybe
> down the road. But not before publication - sorry. I have devoted the
better
> part of the last five years of my life to uncovering and reconciling this
> info, the proper understanding of which goes way beyond the printed
> catalogues as they stand.
>
> The 12" record, Rainbow 8000 was probably recorded in 1923, but not issued
> until 1924. It is the only 12" record in the catalogue and the only "8000"
> Rainbow. It is not a private issue, as it was listed in the 1924
catalogue.
> But it is not a common one; I have seen only one copy of it myself. It is
> certainly a beautiful record to behold, but Homer had to dub it at Gennett
> to get a pressing of it made, as he wasn't set up to manufacture 12"
> records.
>
Now I'm going to have to see if I can find either the data on my
12" Rainbow or the disc itself! I'm fairly sure mine WASN'T numbered
8000...and IIRC it had handwritten, under-the-label matrix numbers,
as did the Rainbows mastered at Rodeheaver's operation, rather than
the handwritten in-the-runout numbers on Gennett productions. I also
record it being an instrumental disc...maybe trombone?
...stevenc
http://users.interlinks.net/stevenc/