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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: ABC ... it's easy as 1,2,3 |
| Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:03:16 -0400 |
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At 08:10 AM 7/4/2003 EDT, JIMSOULS@aol.com wrote:
>My filing dilemma has always centered around Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and
>Slim Harpo. Since their real last names aren't Wolf, Waters, and Harpo, they
>probably should all follow the same rule. Yet I've always put Howlin' Wolf
>under "H" and Muddy Waters under "W," while Slim Harpo tends to slide back
and
>forth between "S" and "H.s" I've partially solved the latter by keeping my
Slim
>Harpo stuff in my car-ready "road trip" box. But that seems like a temporary
>solution to a long-range problem.
This is like a corollary of the Captain Beefheart question (personally, I
put CB under C, because "Captain" isn't supposed to be his first name): I'm
with you on putting Howlin' Wolf under H, because on his early records, he
was often listed as The Howlin' Wolf. Muddy Waters and Slim Harpo belong
under W and H, as far as I'm concerned, because both Waters and Harpo are
surnames, although one is much more common than the other. (Costello isn't
Mr. McManus' real surname either, but you don't put his records under E, do
you?)
>Also, what do you do when two solo artists hook up for a duo album (Waylon &
>Willie, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, Tom Russell & Barrence Whitfield, Steve
>Earle & Del McCoury, etc.)? I also have a trio disc featuring Del McCoury,
Mac
>Wiseman, and Doc Watson. What to do about that one?
The standard is that it's alphabetized under the name of the first person
listed. So THE APPOINTED HOUR by Roger Eno and Pete Hammill is under E,
and CONCEPTION by Miles Davis, Stan Getz and Lee Konitz is under D.
>Which reminds me: I'd be real interested to know how other people file their
>various artists comps. I tend to group them first by record label, then by
>album title within each label group. But I'm not real confident in this
method.
>Any suggestions?
Until my collection merged with my wife's last year -- a process she called
being...whatever it was the Borg was supposed to do to people (unlike
Charity, I'm not a big science fiction fan) -- I kept my compilations mixed
in with my single-artist discs, alphabetized by title. Now, they're still
alphabetized by title, but in their own section after the Zs. I also
segregated the soundtracks, the classical, and the radio transcription
discs, and I incorporated my stuff into Charity's own idiosyncratic method
of cataloguing her enormous collection of traditional ethnic folk music:
separated by country of origin starting in the United States and moving
roughly counter-clockwise around the globe (alphabetized by single artist,
followed by compilations). So it's like US, Canada, Mexico, Central and
South American countries, then Carribean islands, then England, Europe,
Africa, Middle East, India, Russia, Mongolia, China, Southeast Asia, Japan,
then the pan-global compilations at the very end.
S
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