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The American Zonophone
Discography — Volume I

10" and 12" Popular Series (1904 – 1912)

By William R. Bryant
 
Edited and with an introduction by Allan Sutton

The only professional-grade discography of American Zonophone records. Data are from direct, first-hand inspection of the original discs and catalogs by Bill Bryant, the Record Research associates, and more than one-hundred trusted contributors —all newly fact-checked, revised, and updated by ARSC Lifetime Achievement Award winner Allan Sutton. Features include:

Listing, release, and coupling dates for the 1–1100 (10" single-sided), 5000 (10" double-sided), 4000 (12" single-sided), and 7000 (12" double-sided) series
  Recording dates from the last surviving portion of the original Victor-Zonophone files (1910)
  Master numbers, coupling details for double-sided pressings, remakes, alternate versions, and unissued recordings
  Catalog numbers of corresponding foreign and U.S. client-label releases (including Aretino, Busy Bee, Oxford, English Zonophone, and more)
  Artist pseudonyms, plus an appendix listing vocal-group personnel
  Composer and show credits, and medley contents
  Detailed historical introduction, illustrated and footnoted
  Artist and title indexes

7 x 10" Full-Cloth Hardcover • 358 Total Pages • Illustrated
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WILLIAM R. BRYANT authored or co-authored the Emerson, Pathé, Arto-Bell, Leeds & Catlin, Hawthorne & Sheble, International Record Company, and other award-winning discographies published by Mainspring Press. His extensive collection of discographical data and primary-source research materials, which includes the Record Research associates' former holdings, is now a part of the Mainspring Press archives.

ALLAN SUTTON is the author of numerous books and articles on early recordings, including Race Records and the American Recording Industry, 1919–1945; American Record Labels and Companies: An Encyclopedia, 1891–1943; A Phonograph in Every Home; and Recording the ’Twenties. He is the 2013 recipient of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Lifetime Achievement Award.

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