Please help find dates for these 78’s
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:48 am
How You can Help:
We are doing some by automatically matching against 78discography.com and discogs.com, but many are done by hand, finding entries in billboard magazine and on DAHR the like. But many still need dates.
If you would like to help, then please do research and post your findings in the review of a 78rpm record, citing your sources. Then someone with privileges will change the metadata in the item.
The complete collection has date facets on the left reflecting the dates we have found. But we only have dates for about half, and there are thousands of 78rpm sides posted each month so we need help!
To find what others have done, you can list buy sales lead them in the order of the most recent reviews.
The most recent ones that do not have a date nor a review are here. This is a good starting place.
But again, these need dates. If you tried and could not find anything online, then please post a review to that effect so others do not spend time on the same one.
If you find other information, or know other information about the performer, performance, or piece, please put it in. Also links to youtube, wikipedia, and old magazines like cashbox and billboard.
For those that get into it, we invite you to join the slack channel (a great tool if you have not used it already), then that is where there is some discussion. Caitlin@archive.org can set you up.
Oh, and I have gotten a bit obsessed, and this is a twitter feed of a digital transfer every 10 minutes which I visit more times than I should probably.
We are doing some by automatically matching against 78discography.com and discogs.com, but many are done by hand, finding entries in billboard magazine and on DAHR the like. But many still need dates.
If you would like to help, then please do research and post your findings in the review of a 78rpm record, citing your sources. Then someone with privileges will change the metadata in the item.
The complete collection has date facets on the left reflecting the dates we have found. But we only have dates for about half, and there are thousands of 78rpm sides posted each month so we need help!
To find what others have done, you can list buy sales lead them in the order of the most recent reviews.
The most recent ones that do not have a date nor a review are here. This is a good starting place.
But again, these need dates. If you tried and could not find anything online, then please post a review to that effect so others do not spend time on the same one.
If you find other information, or know other information about the performer, performance, or piece, please put it in. Also links to youtube, wikipedia, and old magazines like cashbox and billboard.
For those that get into it, we invite you to join the slack channel (a great tool if you have not used it already), then that is where there is some discussion. Caitlin@archive.org can set you up.
Oh, and I have gotten a bit obsessed, and this is a twitter feed of a digital transfer every 10 minutes which I visit more times than I should probably.