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Billie W. Thomas & Allan Sutton   
Foreword by Randall Stehle

THE PLAZA–ARC DISCOGRAPHY
Volume I: U.S. Issues, Mxs. 5001-11082 (1922–1931)


Plaza Music Co - American Record Corp Discography

$75 postpaid (US & Canada)
$95 postpaid (Elsewhere)

7 x 10" cloth hardcover
600 pages, illustrated

ISBN 0-9772725-3-9
 

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2007 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

At last, a properly documented discography covering Banner, Regal, Domino, Oriole, Jewel, and the many other dime-store and mail-order 78 record labels produced by the Plaza–Regal– Scranton group and its successor, the American Record Corporation.

This volume draws on five decades' research and first-hand observation of the original discs by the late Billie W. Thomas and other notable collectors, correlated with surviving file data, and compiled and annotated by Allan Sutton. Features include:

  • Discographic data for Plaza–ARC matrices 5001–11082 (recorded 1922 through 1931), including renumbered outside matrices and control-number-only issues
  • Details of more than 22,000 U.S. issues, including non-Plaza/ARC pressings from Plaza/ARC masters. (Foreign issues will be covered in a later volume.)
  • Convenient new format, with each issue detailed on its own line
  • Recording dates and locations, remake sessions, release dates, take numbers, accompanists and band vocalists, artist aliases, control and outside master numbers, composer credits, and other fine detail
  • Extensive annotation of discrepancies and errors found in previously published works
  • Illustrated introductory history of the labels and companies
  • Artist, title, accompanist & vocalist, control number, and outside mx. number indexes

 

 


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