[Jukebox-list] Re: How to clean those records?/ Styrene

[David Breneman]

--- "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Once again, it wasn't "Columbia." The parent company was CBS
before
> Sony bought them, and there were several labels under the CBS
> family, with Columbia and Epic being the 2 big ones.  Many were
> smaller labels distributed(& manufactured) through CBS.

Maybe the point of confusion here is that among record collectors,
"Columbia" is the common identification applied to the company that
started as The Columbia Graphophone Company in the 1880s, was
merged with Brunswick in the 1920s, sold to the Columbia
Broadcasting System in the 1930s and is now the record division
of Sony in the USA.  It's the same entity spread across three
centuries; the oldest continuously operating media company in
the world.  It might be that the lingo I'm using here as 
commonly accepted simply isn't in this context.

I'm not disputing any of your claims, simply commenting on
them in light of what's accepted as common knowledge within
the record collecting and archiving community of which I'm a
member.  Needless to say, 45s don't figure very hightly in
the research of such people because they're too recent.
I'm very interested in your observations and am saving
your emails for further reference when this topic comes
up amongst record collectors I know, which in the ARSC, of
which I'm a member, includes everyone from me to the record
companies themselves to the Library of Congress and the
Smithsonian.



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


       
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