SCHWANN June 1951 Long Playing Record Catalog V.3 #6

Description: June 1951 issue V.3 #6. Book has rusted staples and dampstaining and color bleed on back cover and inside back cover onto last page o/w VERY GOOD. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Paperback 8” x 5” with illustrated advertising. The Schwann Catalog (previously Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog or later Schwann Record And Tape Guide) was a monthly catalog of recordings started by William Schwann in 1949. The first edition was hand-typed and 26 pages long, and it listed 674 long-playing records. By the late 1970s, over 150,000 record albums had been listed in Schwann. The company was honored by the record industry both at the 25th anniversary (1974) and 35th anniversary (1984). The Schwann Catalog changed hands several times, sold in 1976, then again in the late 1980s to Stereophile, then to Valley Media in the 1990s. In 2002, the company was purchased at a bankruptcy auction by Alliance Entertainment Corporation. Early issues separated classical, shows and folk music, but combined jazz and popular music, then later separated jazz as well. There were also the Artists Issue (classical listing by artist) and Basic Record Library (a list of 750 classical records). Schwann catalogs can be used for release date research. It became the monthly Schwann Compact Disc Catalog in May '86, and by '92 had become two quarterlies: Schwann Opus for classical and Spectrum for popular, jazz, religious, spoken word, international and the rest; each book had feature articles in the front and provided more info than ever, often including recording dates and personnel on jazz CDs. Spectrum changed to a larger page size in 1995 and was still 500 pages of small print.

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