Paramount

the rise & fall. Vol. one, 1917-1927

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LP 10596 box Text
Library has: discs 1-6; USB flash drive; books 1-2; booklets 1-2; folded leaf; instruction sheet; box
Available On-site use
Format:
Musical Recording
Language:
Sung in English. Blues songbook: staff notation.
Edition:
Limited edition.
Published:
Nashville, Tennessee : Third Man Records ; Austin Texas : Revenant Records, [2013]
Copyright date:
©2013
Publisher number:
FM 21-100
203-1--203-12
TMR203
Subject:
Jazz > To 1921.
Blues (Music) > To 1931.
Blues (Music) > Discography.
Jazz > Discography.
Sound recording industry > Wisconsin.
Record labels > Wisconsin.
Sound recordings > United States > Catalogs.
New York Recording Laboratories > Discography.
Paramount (Sound recording label) > Discography.
Summary:
"How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in 'The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932,' this epic, two-volume omnibus of art, words and music housed in a limited-edition, hand-sculpted cabinet-of-wonder ..."--Publisher's website.
Description:
6 audio discs : analog, mono ; 12 in + 1 USB flash drive (7.6 GB ; 6 x 5 cm) + 1 volume (255 pages ; 34 cm) + 1 volume (360 pages ; 28 cm) + 2 booklets (24 cm) + 1 unnumbered sheet (22 x 28 cm) ; in box (14 x 41 x 47 cm)
Other contributor:
Tuuk, Alex van der, author, producer
White, Jack, 1975- producer
Blackwood, Dean, producer
New York Recording Laboratories.
Paramount (Sound recording label)
Other title:
Title from publisher's website: Rise and fall of Paramount. Volume one, (1917-1932)
Rise & fall of Paramount. Volume one, 1917-1927
Included work:
Cabinet of wonder.
Jobber-luxe.
Notes:
Blues and jazz music.
Title from hardcover book title page.
Housed in a wooden box (Cabinet of wonder).
Sound discs contain selections from Paramount's catalog.
USB flash drive (The jobber-luxe) contains 800 remastered tracks from Paramount's catalog and 200 1920s ads and images.
Hardcover book by Alex van der Tuuk with narrative by Scott Blackwood and illustrations and hand-lettering by Katie Deedy.
Softcover book titled: Field manual : Paramount Records and associated labels. Volume 1 (1917-1927). Contains notes on and discographies of Paramount artists.
Booklets comprise a blues songbook and a catalog of 1924 Paramount recordings.
Sheet comprises instructions for the Cabinet of wonder.
Complete track listing (LPs and USB drive) available as PDF on the publisher's website.
Producers, Alex van der Tuuk, Jack White, Dean Blackwood.
Donor:
Austin Music
Other online content:
Complete contents from Discogs
Sound discs track listing
USB drive track listing