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Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive by Various

Artists


Album Info

Release Date: 2008

Label: Honest Jon's Records

Mostly monoaural recordings taken from the catalogues of the following labels: Kay, Parlophone, Gramophone, His master's voice, Zonophone, Columbia, Disco gramófono, Compagnie française du gramophone, Pathé frères Pathéophone.
Mastered at Abbey Road.
Thanks to Christopher Moseley and Gary Pietronave. Liner notes thanks to John Cowley, Pekka Gronow, Jerrold Northrop Moore, Will Prentice and Paul Vernon.

Recording information:
1. Possibly Hong Kong in the 1910s
2. Bali, 1928
3. Constantinople, 1930
4. Kenya, 1939
5. the Cubans in New York, 1946
6. Belgian Congo, 1954
7. Madras, c 1906
8. Tirana, 1930
9. Spain, c 1933
10. Beiruit, c 1956
11. New York, 1926
12. India, 1905
13. Lincolnshire singer in London, 1908
14. Tokyo, 1903
15. Tiflis, c 1909
16. Morocco, 1910
17. Baghdad, 1929
18. Madras, in the 1900s
19. Gold Coast singer in London, 1928
20. Probably Hong Kong, 1950s
21. London, 1922
22. Lisbon, c 1942
23. Rangoon, c 1908
24. Sudanese singer in Cairo, c 1931
25. India, 1911
26. Algiers, c 1910
27. Uganda, mid-1950s
28. Cubans in New York, 1927
29. Trinidad, 1957
30. London, 1939

Gatefold papersleeve with 24 page booklet of notes and vintage photographs.