Links & Useful Contacts
The Jussi Björling Society USA is offering a 2020 specially discounted membership rate at $15 to readers of The Record Collector. For discounts on books, CDs and posters, 2 free publications per year, and updates on the next conference, contact www.jussibjorlingsociety.org The oldest recorded music society in the world (founded 1919). We promote and publish original research into the history of the industry, the artists and equipment involved. http://www.clpgs.org.uk/ For details of dates and location please click here The Recorded Vocal Art Society - The society now has it's own website. Please visit www.rvas.org.uk www.operanostalgia.be/ Opera Nostalgia: an excellent site with biographies of singers, sound samples, comparative reviews and much else www.lavoceantica.it/ An amazing site with fascinating chronological and discographical information on Italian and non-Italian singers and Italian opera companies active all around the world during the period 1870-1930. http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/ CLOR: an Indexed Electronic Catalogue listng recordings that are or have been commercially available of "complete" operas. It is a fantastic source for both complete recordings and an individual singer's legacy. Larry Holdridge, 54 East Lake Drive, NY 11701-3211. U.S.A. Tel: 631-598-2409. e-mail: Norbeck, Peters & Ford, 59 Congress Street, Saint Albans, VT 05478-1611, USA. Tel: (802) 524-7673; e-mail: web site: http://www.norpete.com David A. Reiss, P.O. Box 2109, Seaford, NY 11783. U.S.A. Tel: 516-798-3381. e-mail: Nauck’s Vintage Records, 22004 Sherrod Lane, Spring, Texas 77389-4539, U.S.A.. Tel: 281-288-7826. Mike Comber, 12 Manor Park, Watling Street Rd, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8LU, U.K. Tel: 01772 792127 Andreas Schmauder, Phonopassion, Friedrichshof, Im Bohrer 7, 79289 Horben, Germany. Tel: (+49) 761 290 97 78. e-mail: website: www.78rpm.org Marston Records: www.marstonrecords.com If you have a collection of 78 rpm discs of operatic artists for sale please feel free to contact The Record Collector for advice and guidance.
The Jussi Björling Society - USA
City of London Phonograph & Gramophone Society
Kempton Park Record Fair (an excellent place to buy 78s, LPs and CDs of great singers)
The Federation of Recorded Music Societies (FMRS)
Society for lovers of recorded vocal art
Interesting sites for lovers of great singers
Where you can buy historic 78s of great singers
e-mail: website: www.78rpm.com Where you can buy transfers to CD of historic records
If you have a collection of 78 rpm discs of operatic artists for sale please feel free to contact The Record Collector for advice and guidance.