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Paul C wrote: Of my collection of the approximately 1615 songs that made the Billboard Best Sellers chart between 1940 and 1954, about 120 are on 78 or 45. These I have not come across on CD or digital download. (One advantage of not having particularly good hearing is that I can almost never tell any difference between a lossless and a 256kbps file.)

One of these days I intend to also tackle 1900-1939 and I doubt anyone has even tried to assemble all the hits from those years and probably its near impossible to do so since a majority of that stuff is not on CD anywhere at all and would need 78 conversion. If you are up for the challenge at some point I can always send you the top 10 chart info for the 1900-1939 period.

I think assembling lossless for the 1900-1949 period is asking a bit too much. If Itunes or amazon has a 256 bit rate that is perfectly acceptable. The songs were never intended to be at that high quality so if you get it at that quality great. If not, its just great to be able to say that you have every top 10 hit from that era (the top 10 hits being the only thing I would collect from 1900-1939 with the charts being so small and disorganized without Billboard around)

Anyways Paul C and Brian W glad to know if I have questions you have been where I am at. Collecting before 1955 has become somewhat of a novelty I suppose.

Edited by PopArchivist

MMathews wrote: PopArchivist, If you ordered the 2-CD set from Good Music Co. called "I Believe" then you will see an accurate spectral print of the master tape. The music stops around 15k and the rest is just hiss. As a side note, you should have this CD set anyway as it has lots of harder to find hits and great sound (no NR). It was produced by Marty Wekser. MM

Just got it today via mail the 2-CD set from Good Music Co., you were right a very good quality compared to all the others out there. Thanks!