THE RCA VICTOR PROGRAM TRANSCRIPTIONS
Complete Discography
By John R. Bolig
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The latest addition to the Mainspring Press Online Reference
Library is a landmark in discographical research. Compiled by John Bolig from the RCA Victor files, it documents the original long-playing masters that were made especially for release as Program Transcriptions, as well listing full details of the 78-rpm source recordings that were used in assembling the more numerous dubbed masters.
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Winner of the 2019 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded-Sound Research, this unique volume contains more than 1,100 entries covering the record companies, independent studios, and individual producers — and the thousands of disc and cylinder brands they produced for the commercial market (including consumer, jukebox, and subscription labels) — from the birth of commercial recording to the start of the LP era.
“A mighty fortress is this book – and it guards an accumulation of knowledge of unparalleled proportions.”
– Tim Fabrizio, ARSC Journal“American Record Companies and Producers will forever be the ultimate resource.”
– John R. Bolig, author of The Victor Discographies“I am in awe of the scope, breadth, detail
and documentation.”
– James A. Drake, author of Ponselle: A Singer’s Life and Richard Tucker: A Biography
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