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This page presents a discography of Columbia '''Personal Record 50018-P'''.

It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].

The sequence of [[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_discography| Chicago Gramophone Society]] catalogue numbers is discontinuous: it does not include a disc with the catalogue number 50018-P.

This was Personal Record 50018-P, recorded and manufactured by Columbia's custom recording department, launched in 1915;<ref>Brooks, Tim <span class="plainlinks">[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/111 'Columbia Corporate History: Personal Recording']</span>, from Rust, Brian and Brooks, Tim ''The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I, U.S. matrix series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934'', Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1999</ref> the same department recorded and pressed the Society's issues, and its catalogue numbers were likewise taken from Columbia's 'Personal Record' series, which started at 50001-P.

Strictly speaking, this disc falls outside the scope of this wiki, but it is documented here to assuage curiosity about the missing disc, and as a little-known item of recorded Americana.

For dates of '''creation''' and '''latest update''', please see 'Page information' in left sidebar.

==Selections==
Both selections were drawn from <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol ''A Christmas Carol'']</span>, the novel by <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens '''Charles Dickens''']</span>.

==Origination==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%"
! style="width: 15%;" | Selection
! style="width: 12%;" | Artists
! style="width: 6%;" | Format
! style="width: 6%;" | Matrix
! style="width: 5%;" | Stamper
! style="width: 8%;" | Recorded
! style="width: 8%;" | Location
! style="width: 13%;" | Label cat. no.
! style="width: 3%;" | Country
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|'''Dickens''' ''A Christmas Carol'' –<br/>Stave 2, 'Fessiwig's Party' (abridged)||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Peabody_(educator) Endicott Peabody] (reader)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91727-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">1-A-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. 11 March 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||Personal Record 50018-P||USA
|-
|Stave 5, 'Christmas Morning' (abridged)||<span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Peabody_(educator) Endicott Peabody] (reader)||12" / 30 cm<br/>lateral disc||<div style="text-align: center;">W91728-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">1-A-1</div>||<div style="text-align: center;">c. 11 March 1927</div>||Columbia studio,<br/>New York City(?)||Personal Record 50018-P||USA
|-
|}
===System===
Western Electric, under licence to Columbia, as denoted by the logo Ⓦ preceding matrix numbers. This symbol cannot be searched for in MediaWiki, and so is not used in the table above.

===Cuts===
Both selections recorded in abridged form.

===Availability===
Sold privately, to raise funds (see below); price unknown.

===Notes===
The <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigler-Deutsch_Index Rigler-Deutsch Index]</span>, accessed via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat]</span>, contains only <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/title/christmas-carol-christmas-morning/oclc/79336484 one entry]</span> for disc 50018-P, documenting the side with matrix number W91728; the other side appears to be missing. Nevertheless, this reveals that the reader was the priest and noted educator, the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Peabody_(educator) Reverend Endicott Peabody]</span>, which prompted an enquiry to <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton_School Groton School]</span>, in Groton, Mass., USA.

Groton's founding headmaster, Peabody originated a school tradition of readings by headmasters from ''A Christmas Carol'' before the start of the Christmas vacation, which has continued unbroken from 1899 until today.

The Groton School archives show that Peabody stopped in New York, on his way to Bermuda, on 10 or 11 March 1927; the archivist suggests the latter as the most likely date of the recording.

The June 1927 issue of ''The Grotonian'' reported that 300 copies of the record had been sold for the benefit of Groton School Camp.<ref>Thanks are due to Douglas Brown, archivist of Groton School, for kindly furnishing information about the disc's contents, recording date and purpose, as well as a photocopy of one disc label, and to Stephen T. Marchand, Library Director, McCormick Library, Groton School, for kindly responding to my initial enquiry (personal communications, February 2017)<br />Further reading (not consulted for this wiki): Bingham, Kenneth E. ''Groton School Camp'', Charleston, South Carolina: Binghamus Press, 2009</ref>

===Copies known===
Groton School, Mass., USA.

===Transfers===
Audio cassette, Groton School.

==Other issues==
No other issue known.

==References==
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 This page presents a discography of Columbia '''Personal Record 50018-P'''.
-It is part of the wiki [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
+It is part of the site [[Classical 'Society' Records by Nick Morgan]].
 The sequence of [[Chicago_Gramophone_Society_discography| Chicago Gramophone Society]] catalogue numbers is discontinuous: it does not include a disc with the catalogue number 50018-P.
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 This was Personal Record 50018-P, recorded and manufactured by Columbia's custom recording department, launched in 1915.<ref>Brooks, Tim <span class="plainlinks">[https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/111 'Columbia Corporate History: Personal Recording']</span>, from Rust, Brian and Brooks, Tim ''The Columbia Master Book Discography, Volume I, U.S. matrix series 1 through 4999, 1901-1910 with a history of the Columbia Phonograph Company to 1934'', Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, 1999</ref> The same department recorded and pressed the Society's issues, whose catalogue numbers were likewise taken from a Columbia 'Personal Record' series starting at 50001-P.
-Strictly speaking, this disc falls outside the scope of this wiki, but it is documented here to assuage possible curiosity about the missing number, and as a little-known item of recorded Americana.
+Strictly speaking, this disc falls outside the scope of this site, but it is documented here to assuage possible curiosity about the missing number, and as a little-known item of recorded Americana.
 For dates of creation and latest update, please see 'Page information' in left sidebar.
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 The <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigler-Deutsch_Index Rigler-Deutsch Index]</span>, accessed via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat]</span>, contains only <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/title/christmas-carol-christmas-morning/oclc/79336484 one entry]</span> for disc 50018-P, documenting the side with matrix number W91728. This states that the reader was the priest and noted educator, the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Peabody_(educator) Reverend Endicott Peabody]</span>, founding headmaster of <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton_School Groton School]</span>, in <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton,_Massachusetts Groton]</span>, Massachusetts, USA.
-An enquiry to Groton School revealed that Peabody originated a tradition of readings by headmasters from ''A Christmas Carol'' before the start of the Christmas vacation, which has continued unbroken from 1899 until today, and of which this disc was evidently intended as a memento. The Groton School archives show that Peabody was in New York on 10 or 11 March 1927; the archivist suggests the latter as the most likely date of the recording. The June 1927 issue of ''The Grotonian'', the school magazine, reported that 300 copies of the disc had been sold for the benefit of the Groton School Camp for underprivileged boys (run by the school until 1966).<ref>Thanks are due to Douglas Brown, archivist of Groton School, for kindly furnishing full details of the disc's contents, probable recording date and purpose, as well as photocopies of both labels, and to Stephen T. Marchand, Library Director, McCormick Library, Groton School, for kindly responding to my initial enquiry (personal communications, February 2017)<br />Further reading (not consulted for this wiki): Bingham, Kenneth E. ''Groton School Camp'', Charleston, South Carolina: Binghamus Press, 2009</ref>
+An enquiry to Groton School revealed that Peabody originated a tradition of readings by headmasters from ''A Christmas Carol'' before the start of the Christmas vacation, which has continued unbroken from 1899 until today, and of which this disc was evidently intended as a memento. The Groton School archives show that Peabody was in New York on 10 or 11 March 1927; the archivist suggests the latter as the most likely date of the recording. The June 1927 issue of ''The Grotonian'', the school magazine, reported that 300 copies of the disc had been sold for the benefit of the Groton School Camp for underprivileged boys (run by the school until 1966).<ref>Thanks are due to Douglas Brown, archivist of Groton School, for kindly furnishing full details of the disc's contents, probable recording date and purpose, as well as photocopies of both labels, and to Stephen T. Marchand, Library Director, McCormick Library, Groton School, for kindly responding to my initial enquiry (personal communications, February 2017)<br />Further reading (not consulted): Bingham, Kenneth E. ''Groton School Camp'', Charleston, South Carolina: Binghamus Press, 2009</ref>
 ===Copies known===

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 The <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigler-Deutsch_Index Rigler-Deutsch Index]</span>, accessed via <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/ WorldCat]</span>, contains only <span class="plainlinks">[https://www.worldcat.org/title/christmas-carol-christmas-morning/oclc/79336484 one entry]</span> for disc 50018-P, documenting the side with matrix number W91728. This states that the reader was the priest and noted educator, the <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endicott_Peabody_(educator) Reverend Endicott Peabody]</span>, founding headmaster of <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton_School Groton School]</span>, in <span class="plainlinks">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton,_Massachusetts Groton]</span>, Massachusetts, USA.
-An enquiry to Groton School revealed that Peabody originated a tradition of readings by headmasters from ''A Christmas Carol'' before the start of the Christmas vacation, which has continued unbroken from 1899 until today, and of which this disc was evidently intended as a memento. The Groton School archives show that Peabody was in New York on 10 or 11 March 1927; the archivist suggests the latter as the most likely date of the recording. The June 1927 issue of ''The Grotonian'', the school magazine, reported that 300 copies of the disc had been sold for the benefit of the Groton School Camp for underprivileged boys (run by the school until 1966).<ref>Thanks are due to Douglas Brown, archivist of Groton School, for kindly furnishing full details of the disc's contents, probable recording date and purpose, as well as a photocopy of one disc label, and to Stephen T. Marchand, Library Director, McCormick Library, Groton School, for kindly responding to my initial enquiry (personal communications, February 2017)<br />Further reading (not consulted for this wiki): Bingham, Kenneth E. ''Groton School Camp'', Charleston, South Carolina: Binghamus Press, 2009</ref>
+An enquiry to Groton School revealed that Peabody originated a tradition of readings by headmasters from ''A Christmas Carol'' before the start of the Christmas vacation, which has continued unbroken from 1899 until today, and of which this disc was evidently intended as a memento. The Groton School archives show that Peabody was in New York on 10 or 11 March 1927; the archivist suggests the latter as the most likely date of the recording. The June 1927 issue of ''The Grotonian'', the school magazine, reported that 300 copies of the disc had been sold for the benefit of the Groton School Camp for underprivileged boys (run by the school until 1966).<ref>Thanks are due to Douglas Brown, archivist of Groton School, for kindly furnishing full details of the disc's contents, probable recording date and purpose, as well as photocopies of both labels, and to Stephen T. Marchand, Library Director, McCormick Library, Groton School, for kindly responding to my initial enquiry (personal communications, February 2017)<br />Further reading (not consulted for this wiki): Bingham, Kenneth E. ''Groton School Camp'', Charleston, South Carolina: Binghamus Press, 2009</ref>
 ===Copies known===