78 RPM online collection released

[jbuck919]

This looks suspiciously like something that must have been posted here already, but I have not seen it before. "Song" of course in the cyber world means any piece of music up to a movement from a Beethoven symphony, a pic of a 78 of which is featured at the top of this post. Offered for your comments, as it does appear to include a fair amount of classical music.

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/loca ... o-download

[absinthe]

There were days long ago when you could order a pressing against a matrix number from HMV, dare say Columbia (UK) too, and see what turned up. Apparently collectors pored through the catalogues for blank artist/title entries.

Interesting times.

[John F]

My goodness, what a mammoth project! The labels from 78s reproduced on the site are all pop stuff, and the classical sides are a small minority - 25 "classical," 7 "opera." And YouTube is a great source for classical 78s, mostly in LP or CD transfers but some from the originals. But for some, perhaps many, this could be a useful resource.