OT: song/recording charts/databases on the web ?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org wrote:

>  Is there a recording/song metadata database available on the web?  My
> favourite music spans the 30's, 40's, 50's, and to the end of 1963.
> E.g. pre-Beatles rock and pop and big-band.  The scarey part is that a
> lot of is so old that it's now public domain in Canada and most of the
> planet for that matter, excluding the USA and its territories (Puerto
> Rico, Guam, Iraq, etc).  I'd like to find out what year songs were done,
> and artist names, etc.

I don't know about online but Akai (?) used to publish a 1000+ page book 
that contained a reference to every vinyl and compact cassette ever made 
in the civilised world. I saw one once in a flea market. I am not sure it 
was Akai, it was one of the large Japanese firms.

Peter
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