I’ve been very busy with work and other things and didn’t ad much to the website. However, in the last few days I managed to continue the website update as intended and explained some time ago. I’m still in the process of getting it the way I want, which needs some more time. For now the structure of the website has been slightly improved, which meant a bit of a drastic measure, as I decided to give up on the single and EP releases. The pages/tables for singles and EP’s have been moved to a separate page, accessible from the Links-page. They will remain there but I won’t add much to them and I will focus instead on the LP releases (10 and 12 inch). This means I will slow down buying singles and EP’s and I won’t bother much to make scans. Acquired single and EP releases will still be listed though.

In the last few months I realised the website became increasingly hard to consult with all its tables, series, etc. In many cases I found it hard to determine where to categorize a record and the messy organisation in the Philips catalogue didn’t help much either. The next few weeks I will therefore try to reorganize the website and make it more accessible. I will use Philips’ own categories, indicated by the prefixes or suffixes used, as the starting point. This means the following:

A, N, L, S, G: Classical, Folklore and more
B: Jazz, American music and more
P: Popular, a receptacle of many styles and genres
D: Special releases
….

The prefix structure used by Philips is not always completely logical, but I’ll take it as it is, as much as possible. The page Minigroove will be updated with more general information regarding Philips’ prefixes and suffixes.

The category “Religious” has disappeared and the items formerly listed under “Religious” will move to “Classical” and (mostly) to “Popular”, depending on the prefix/suffix used.

I will minimize the use of ‘dedicated’ series as main categories. This means the data will as much as possible be integrated, depending on the prefixes/suffixes and numbers used. The series will still be available, but not for primary identification.

Images were added for Philips P 17528 H, a regular 78rpm record by Jan Corduwener. Click on the image below to see large images.

Images were added for Philips P 17730 H, a regular 78rpm issue by Willy Alberti, a Dutch artist who sings in Spanish (“Tani”) and in Italian (“Scusami”) on this disc. Click on the image below to see large images.

Earlier I added labels for a few Columbian albums I acquired, all missing their covers. One of these albums was by Luis Rovira, who probably made three albums for Philips, all pretty obscure. Added today was a promotional photo for Luis Rovira Y Su Combo. The back lists the three albums Luis Rovira made for Philips. Click on the image below and scroll down to see both the front and the back of that photo.

Images were added for Philips P 15370 H, a 78rpm record by Bernard Drukker (Hammond orgel). Click the image below to see large images.

It’s been some time since I added pictures to the website, but I’ve been busy with it nevertheless: new additions were listed, corrections to the text were made, etc., etc. Today I added scans for a recently acquired album: “The Song Is You” by Wally Stott and his Orchestra. Click on the image below to see large images and more details.

Images were added for Columbia CL 604, an album by Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra, which was reissued on Philips B 07049 L in 1955. Click on the image below for large images and more details.

Images were added for Philips A 00259 L, a classical album featuring Clara Haskil and the “Wiener Symphoniker”. Click on the image below to see large images and more details.

After Chile and Colombia, it’s now time for Argentina. I added two albums: “Ayer, Hoy Y Siempre” by Marlene Dietrich (P 07684 L) and “Basie” by La Orquesta De Count Basie (P-630.577-L).

Unlike Chile and Colombia, Philips Argentina used a different logo; the lay-out is the same but it reads ‘microsurco’ instead of ‘minigroove’. A surprising detail, as the Spanish word means ‘microgroove’, rather than ‘minigroove’.

Click on the images below to see large images and more details.