In the early 80's when I started my 'Ansermetnia' I wanted to have a discography of Ernest Ansermet but I could not find one. I was confused
as to which La Valse was which etc. So I wrote to the Suisse Romande
Orchestra in Geneva. The were stumped too. But they did help me. Ron
Golan, of the SRO management, forwarded my letter to Decca in England.
they sent me a package that contained over 100 Photostats of the Decca
file cards for EA. Being a nut, I wrote Decca directly and told them
that they forgot to include the cards for the other orchestras. A few
weeks later a package arrived with the cards for the PCO LPO LSO and
NPO.
I just remembered that AOL provides 4 MB per screen name for storage I
should have remembered this sooner because I used to maintain a website
for my business. Since I have my own ISP, Aol only costs $9.995 per
month. Now I am a guest on my business partner's account. I plan to
spin off my screen name to my own account very soon. This will give
me 28 MB of storage(7 screen names per account). I plan to have a
website in the honor and memory of EA. It will have a complete
discography, pictures MP3s etc. Look for it soon.
The MP3s I have been posting to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classical will
now go to my aol storage if they are smaller than 4 MB.
I think everybody would like to see an example of a Decca file card. I
picked one at random, and posted two jpegs. Right click(windows users)
and you can save it and view it at it's real size. The first one is the
Date timings and matrix numbers. The second is the lp #s and dates of
release.
There are plenty of mistakes and omissions in the cards. The mistakes
have appeared as wrong dates on CD releases.
Jeffrey 'Abbedd' Powell the 'Ansermetniac'
http://members.aol.com/abbedd4/decca1.jpg
