COLUMBIA RECORDS C SERIES, 1908-1923

COLUMBIA RECORDS C SERIES, 1908-1923A draft numerical list, including all known releasesby Dick SpottswoodAs soon as phonographs and records became widely available in the 1890s, manufacturers sought to expand their markets around the globe. Recording teams and agents traveledacross the Euro-Asian continents to create wholesale and retail outlets for their products, and to capture local and regional music that attracted customers. American companies wereslower to expand, since English-language records produced in New York could be sold across the continent. Even so, demand for foreign language records existed from thebeginning, starting with immigrant audiences around the city itself and extending to areas throughout the nation where other tongues were spoken. Columbia Records’ E Seriesincluded European and Near Eastern languages. A parallel C Series served the Spanish-language market from the southwestern U.S. to the rest of the western hemisphere. It lastedfrom 1908 to 1923, and was replaced by a 2000-X series that ended with 6705-X in 1951.Zonophone engineers from England were in Buenos Aires in 1902, producing records locally sold on a Royal label that were likely the earliest (at least in disc form) produced on thecontinent. By American Zonophone, owned by Victor, was first to record in Havana, producing over eighty titles by Pablo Valenzuela’s popular danzón orchestra in 1905. Edison andColumbia came to Havana in 1906, and Victor followed in 1907. Columbia and Victor returned in 1909 and from time to time during the decades that followed. Some popular artistssailed to New York for additional sessions when demand for their records increased.Columbia reportedly visited Mexico City in 1903, followed by Edison (1904) and Victor (1905). Edison returned annually from 1907-09. Victor came in July 1905, July 1907 andNovember-December 1910. Afterwards, Mexico’s revolution curtailed recording there for more than a decade. Victor returned in November 1926 and came periodically thereafter.Columbia revisited Mexico City in 1905, 1907 and 1910. Later dates haven’t survived, so when (and even if) Columbia recorded again in Mexico before 1947 (when Discos Columbiade México was launched) isn’t clear.B and BO series were created for Brazil and there was an Argentine T series, but information on their contents is hard to come by. An L series was created exclusively for records byLovey’s Band of Trinidad, whose approximately 57 releases were recorded in New York in 1912 and Port-of-Spain in 1914. A P1 – P91 series was created solely for Peruvian discs bythe vocal duet Montes y Manrique in 1911.Columbia’s C Series for the broader Spanish market began in the fall of 1908 when the company issued its first discos dobles, two-sided pressings that replaced single-siders that hadbeen the industry norm until then. New ten-inch discs were numbered from C1 – C999 and C2000 - C4238. Twelve-inch discs were numbered from C1000 to C1310.This list is an attempt to document each published record, with inf ormation deriv ed f rom my Ethnic Music on Records (Univ ersity of Illinois, 1990), Tim Brooks’ and Brian Rust’sColum bia Master Book Discography (Greenwood Press, 1999), Cristóbal Díaz Ayala’s Cuba canta y baila: Discografi a de la mu sica cubana, volume 1: 1898-1925 (FundaciónMusicalia, 1994), the Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection website, and numerous 1910s Columbia catalogs generously loaned by Steve Smolian of BacknumberRecords. Special thanks to Andy Moyer for a detailed account of the Rigoletto sequence (C1288 –C1304), an early attempt at putting a complete opera on records. Jim Cartwright(of Immortal Performances Inc. in Austin, Texas) supplied more data from ten-inch operatics, and corrected information already here.Sketchy evidence suggests a tentative sequence of numbers assigned to Spanish-language matrix groups. Columbia created a number of them, and the logic of their assignment isn’talways obvious.

50-1405121351-21550Mexico City, 1904-5Mexico City, 1905-6New York City, 1906-7Mexico City, 1908Mexico City, 1908-10Mexico-oriented material, mid-1910s, location(s) uncertainMontes y Manrique (Peru), in New York, October 1911(other artists in this block are untraced)Spanish language, New York City, November 1911 - ca. August 1915Havana, 1906-10Havana, ca. 1913Havana, 1900s-1910s (12-inch)Havana, 1913-6Havana, 1916-December 1917Buenos Aires and/or New York City, 1905-1911Havana and NYC, December 1917-1918Havana (and New York?), 1910s-1928 (12-inch)New York City (etc.?), 1919New York City (etc.?), 1920New York City (etc.?), 1921-2New York City (etc.?), ual recording dates are few and far between, and the rest are speculative in varying degrees, so please don’t cite my guesses as fact. You’ll also notice that I’ve listed them in an inconsistentfashion. Entering dates on spread sheets unavoidably triggers the software’s calculator function that I’ve had to work around in various ways. Fortunately, online publication makes updates easy.So, if the problem’s solvable and if you spot text errors and/or omissions, let me know and I’ll be pleased to fix them. Other feedback is welcome too.Dick SpottswoodJanuary 2017Columbia Records C Series, 1908–1923Compilation 2017 by Richard K. Spottswood. Free download provided by Mainspring Press (www.mainspringpress.com).This material may be distributed free of charge, for personal use only, provided that the above sources are cited. Sale or other commercial use is prohibited.Please submit questions, additions, or revisions to: dick@wamu.org#CCCCCCCCMatrix11223 54673 564144TitleZacatecas-MarchaNo llores-DanzaPorfirio Díaz-MarchaSaltimbanquis-ValsAlt. TitleAuthorPerformerBanda Espan̈olaBanda Espan̈olaBanda Espan̈olaBanda Espan̈olaAccomp.OriginTitleTranslationRec. eissue of

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