A list of other contact and information websites for the collector of 78rpm records
this page first published by John Wright, 19 Sept 1997
last update 28 September 2006
vintage@jabw.demon.co.uk
As well as the many webpages cited in my information pages, there are many sites similar to this site which offer their own style of presentation and selected information. It is useful to visit these every so often to keep up to date with activities and discussions around the world.
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Collectors' SitesServices and Organisations
Fan ClubsRe-mastering 78's to CD
Other sites of interest
Phonograph Ring
Vintage Movie Websites
Dance Band Music Exchange
78-L Internet Group
| Dance bands | Mike Thomas's website has many interesting photograhs and sound clips of British dance bands |
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| Visiting American bands | Joe Moore and Mike Thomas are also preparing webpages for some of the American dance bands who visited Britain in the 1920's-30's and you can see the progress at Visiting American Bands |
| Norman Field’s Website | Norman Field’s Website is devoted to 78 rpm records |
| Talking Shellac | Dave Cooper’s Website is devoted to 78 collecting and there is an Al Bowlly page, 45rpm re-issues, and items on Bitsy Mullins and Evelyn Dall |
| The E-discographer | David Diehl's excellent site lists research sources and discographies published on many record labels |
| Between The Wars | Peter J. Doyle's website is the home of "Between The Wars" on WXXI-FM, 91.5, weekly features explore popular music from around the world in the years 1919-1945. All recordings are from the personal collection of Peter J. Doyle |
| Beltona Project | Bill Dean-Mayatt and Keith Chandler are compiling a discography of the British BELTONA label, can you help? |
| Bill Clark's | Bill Clark's excellent collectors site has advice for 'beginners' |
| Deutscher Grammophon-Club e.V. | a very attractive German site for 78 collectors. Includes images of many beautiful record labels |
| Linworth site | this site is jointly managed by two collectors, Bill Worth and John Linard. Contains articles on jazz 78's, including Duke Ellington, skiffle, Chis Barber. Also 'wants' lists. |
| Dinosaur Discs | articles on the 78 era, and some sales |
| John R T Davies | John R T is probably the most respected and most successful engineer in the business of re-mastering vintage recordings and has produced some of the best CD-reissues (and LP's before that). Visit this site and see the list of great music that John has made available to us! |
| Trusound Website | Christian Zwarg and other collectors from France and Germany are working on listings of all acoustically recorded 78's (pre-electric) |
| Schellack | At Michael Herklotz's site you can listen to more than 30 American, British and German danceband and jazz titles, also some written articles |
| HIT OF THE WEEK DURIUM PROJECT 1930-2000 | Hans Koert has published the discograpy of all Durium-type flexible 78's |
| Rainer Lotz website | Dr Rainer Lotz is one of the world's foremost discographers, and has written many excellent books on early music recordings and jazz. Rainer's website has a booklist, record auction, wants list and other information. email: Rainer Lotz |
| LABEL-ART | A site to view scanned pictures of 78rpm record labels from the whole world. Collectors are invited to add to this collection by submitting scans of their rare labels |
| Ty Settlemeier's Site | this page in Ty's site lists some of the Victor catalogue numbers. Check out the rest of the website. |
| "Jan's 78rpm Warehouse" | Jan Hover's Website (English version) |
| Jan Hover's website (in Dutch) | includes a page devoted to Deanna Durbin |
| Earl Okin's Homepage | Earl 'Spats' Okin is a British entertainer - AND a 78 collector. Visit Earl's homepage and see some of his great collection of jazz and opera 78's and their beautiful labels. This site is so good to look at! |
| Steve Albin's Homepage | a detailed homepage describing Steve's development of a program for a record collection database, affectionately known as 'Brian' (after Brian Rust) |
| Bobby Cusson's Homepage | enthusiastic jazz collector, many label images |
| Weergever | visit the Dutch 78rpm collectors website |
| Phonatics Archives | Website for phonograph/gramophone collectors |
| Red Hot Jazz Archive | Scott Alexander's classic jazz information page, with many complete recordings that can be heard with the free RealAudio download. Hot dance bands are also discussed in depth. |
| Helmut Weber's Hobby | Find links all over the world and hear some historic recordings from Europe |
| The Roaring Twenties Page | Read about Jazz Age artists and listen to '20s and '30s audio clips |
| Doug Gardner's Nostalgia (London U.K.) | a British collector sharing his interests and useful contacts |
| Beatles at 78rpm | an interesting site with Beatles 78 lists and label pictures |
| Maddocks | visit Alex Maddock's collectors' website, and find out what kind of collector YOU are! |
| Nugrape CD's | New website mainly blues & gospel, lots of articles, pictures and rare 78rpm labels |
| Old Crank | a good website devoted to phonographs/gramophones, with information on manuals, advertisements, and a good links list |
| Virtual Talking Machine | Dismuke's excellent site has whole recordings |
| Past Times | Randy Skretvedt's own magazine's website |
| Gary Herzensteil's 78rpm Record Home Page | Gary's page can link you to many informative articles on vintage music |
| Tim Gracyk's 78rpm Homepage | Tim has compiled a valuable library of informative articles for the 78 collector |
| The Jazz Age Page | Richard Savill presents stories and sounds from the 1920's |
| Richard Bourcier's Jazz Fan Attic Page (Canada) | This page has many links for all styles of Jazz |
| Shellackytoons | Listen to Brian Litzenberger's favourite vintage music |
| Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox | Listen to Jeff Litchman's favourite vintage music |
| BOB'S OPERA MADNESS (the Virtual Opera Museum) |
78 collector Bob Stern invites you to see the World's Only Gallery of OPERA SINGERS IN 3-D!! E-mail rstern@pipeline.com or radioguy@been-there.com |
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Services and Collectors Organisations:
| Association for Recorded Sound Collections | invitation to participate in exchange of information, and receive the benefits of newsletters, journals, conference |
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| Mississippi Rag | website of the Mississippi Rag magazine, publication covers traditional jazz and ragtime, and many readers are 78 collectors editor Leslie Johnson e-mail: editor@mississippirag.com |
| VJM | Vintage Jazz Mart's own website jazz music articles and record auctions |
| G's Jazz, Inc. | Rare and out of print jazz books, magazines, videos, memorabilia and LP recordings for sale to collectors. Inquiries welcome, 24 hour fax.
Gary Alderman, P.O. Box 259164, Madison, WI 53725-9164 USA Phone: (608)274-3527, Fax: (608)277-1999 Email: gjazz@mail.tds.net Visit website:http://www.artstech.com/gjazz |
| CVC Productions | Sound Restoration and Transfer to CD Service (78, LP or 45 to CD) |
| Ruth Lambert's Website | specialising in phonograph(gramophone) needle tins,
gramophone accessories, gramophone postcards, HMV items. Also the NEEDLE TIN CALENDAR
E-mail Ruth |
| 78rpm Memory Lane | Tim Donovan's site sells cassettes of danceband and jazz music E-Mail is: donovan78rpm@msn.com |
| MC Productions | Mickey Clark has a huge cassette catalogue of music since 1900 |
| Mt Rosalie Records | Dave and Barbara Gibson's website includes lists of stores/shops selling 78's in North America, and their own sales lists |
| Tinfoil | answers to many beginners' and collectors' questions |
| Brad the Impaler | Brad Clark's site includes fine recordings and label pictures |
| Wolverine Antique Music Society (WAMS) | one of the original Internet sites for collectors, you must visit them ! |
| Bluesworld | Links you to jazz publications around the world |
| R Weber | repairing/restoring and buying and selling phonographs and gramophones(in addition to collecting) |
| CLPGS | City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society |
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Fan Club and Appreciation Sites:
| Memory Lane | visit the website to find out about THE magazine for fans of dancebands and entertainers of the 20's to the 40's |
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| British Dance Bands | visit the discussion site for fans of the British dance bands of the 20's-40's |
| Bowlly | visit Barry McCanna's Al Bowlly discussion site, with a continuous thread discussing Al's vocal recordings one by one |
| Al Bowlly | visit Ian Roger's original Al Bowlly discussion site also discussions on other vocalists of the 20's-40's |
| Unofficial Al Bowlly Website | includes biography, a full 78 discography, picture gallery |
| Rhythm Band | webpage devoted to the bands of George Fisher, 1920's - 1930's, also a page on Jay Whidden. CD's of these bands are available (Mellotone label) |
| Denny Dennis | Tony Bradley's website devoted to the great dance band and solo singer |
| Anne Shelton | visit website devoted to the Ambrose Orch. singer |
| The Noel Coward Society | excellent website, includes a discography |
| Bix homepage | this superb site deals Bix and his music, and just about everything and anyone touched by Bix. Forum page has contributions from the world's Bix fans |
| Max Miller | Anything you want to know about comedian Max Miller, his recordings, films, etc. can be found on Terry Hardy's site for the Max Miller Appreciation Society |
| Evelyn Dall | visit Grahame Newnham's website devoted to the Ambrose Orch. singer, with detailed article, discography and filmography |
| Jack Hylton | visit Peter Faint's website devoted to the life and work of the great British dance band leader, Jack Hylton |
| Jack Hylton Archive | website at the library of Lancaster University, home of the Jack Hylton archive |
| Goodnight Sweetheart | visit the official Al Bowlly site |
| Jessie Matthews | the Jessie Matthews site has films lists, excellent pictures and theatre programmes |
| Xylotopia | Steve Lederman's website devoted to the great Xylophone players and other mallet men and percussionists |
| Six Brown Brothers | Steve Lederman's website devoted to Six Brown Brothers (saxophone sextet) |
| George Formby Society | the Formby site has records and films lists, and some good pictures |
| Charlie Kunz | visit the website devoted to the dance band leader and piano medley star |
| Bert Williams | visit the website devoted to this early century star |
| International Al Jolson website | Marc Leavey's world site for Jolson fans |
| British Al Jolson website | David Hamer's British site for Jolson fans |
| Bing's Homepage | The main website for Bing Crosby fans |
| Eddie Cantor | visit the Eddie Cantor Appreciation Society |
| Cliff Edwards | Dave Garrick's website devoted to Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) |
| Annette Hanshaw pages | website devoted to the popular 20's recording artiste |
| John McCormack | the website features a biography and FULL discography of the Irish tenor |
| STARN | website devoted to Scottish theatre and entertainers of the past (Sir Harry Lauder etc) |
| Gene Krupa | Shawn Martin's website devoted to the jazz drummer |
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| Arthur Dulay | Peter Perkins has created a very neat website as a tribute to musician Arthur Dulay |
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| Old Dance Band Music Exchange | founded by Pete March, this very active group of musicians exchanges original dance band scores |
| Diamond Cut Productions | Home of DC-Art Audio Restoration Tools and the music of the 20's and 30's including our Edison Laterals CD collection |
| British Dance Bands Database | read short biographies of most of the important British band leaders and their bands |
| Swedish National Sound Archive | . |
| RIAA and 78 RPM preamp | Jørgen Vad's technical site on 78 playing, in Danish and English |
| Phonograph Makers | Christer Hamp's page describes how to make a modern electric cylinder player, and has links to many other modern phonograph makers |
| Wisconsin Music Archives | website listing all the Paramount, Broadway, Puritan, Famous records in their library |
| Adam Miller | visit Adam's website pages on 78rpm copyright stamps |
| Vitaphone Project | the project to restore the early 'sound-on-disc' films and their soundtracks |
| Radio Museum Rottenburg | a German website with pages in English. Pictures of some super gramophones |
| Virtual Radio and Phono Museum | this French website has some pages in English, mainly talking machines and radios |
| Spud Montain Web Radio | This website features music re-recorded from 78s and cylinders with the focus on traditional rural music of North America |
| rasmussencollectibles | . |
| musiccollecting.com | website offering rare music memorabilia for sale |
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