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The Gramophone Shop[1][2]

Founders[edit]

Investors[edit]

  • William Henry Tyler (1899–1948), born in Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania, had been manager of the main store of New York Band Instrument Company on 14th Street.
Tyler had left New York and, around October 1946, founded his own shop in Midtown Atlanta at 845 Peachtree Street, NE – Tyler's Gramophone Shop.[3] That address, from 1975 to 2004, was the fabled 24-hour nightclub, Backstreet, "the Studio 54 of the South."[4] From 1968 to about 1973, it was Kitten's Korner, "Pussycat Go-Go Bar," founded by Ely Freedman (1918–2000), Jack I. Freedman (né Jacob Irving Freedman; 1921–2017), Ronald Spetalnick (1929–1918), and Otto Meier (né Otto Walter Meier; 1934–2014), each owning a quarter interest. In 1951, the Headquarters for the Red Cross held the address.


Bryan Bishop's old mentor, Bill Brooks (né William Param Brooks; 1900–1986), spoke of working for Tyler's Gramophone Shop, which, according to Bishop, would explain the large number of imported records that Brooks possessed. Tyler had worked as an importer in Atlanta as he had in New York. His store didn't last long, unfortunately. It's listed in only two editions of the city directories, 1947 and 1948–49. Around 1990, Bishop acquired a few 78s from a lady who had been one of his customers (this lady's name, alas, I cannot remember, but she attended the church I was playing for at the time). She remembered Tyler's Gramophone Shop as "a wonderful place," and that "it closed down after Tyler, on September 13, 1948, died of an apparent overdoes of sleeping pills. Tyler had told a worker at his store, William Smith Posten, earlier that day, that he was not feeling well. Speculation was that he committed suicide."[5][6] The original Gramophone Shop in New York closed its doors for good early in 1954. Posten was a 1947 graduate of Georgia Tech.


  • Joe Brogan (né Joseph Francis Brogan; 1893–1965), born in Dundee, Scotland, was manager of the New York Band Instrument Company on West 34th Street. His mother was a well-known singer with the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He never married and died in Switzerland.[2]
Tyler, William H. (Bill); Brogan, Joseph F. (Joe). Encyclopedia of the World's Best Recorded Music. New York: Gramophone Shop. LCCN 2020-562104 (1st ed; 1930) LCCN 2020-562098 (2nd ed.; 1931); OCLC 22149139 (all editions) (1st ed.; 1930), OCLC 11292121 (all editions) (2nd ed.; 1931).
  • The Gramophone Shop (founded by Tyler & Brogan in 1928) "Specialists in Imported Records," 47 East 47th Street, New York City (between Park and Madison Avenues)[7] (before 1928, the New York Band Instrument Co.)[1]

The Music Lovers' Guide (digitized online)[edit]

The name, Music Lovers' Guide was conceived as early as 1931 by the New York Band Instrument Company.
    Axel B. Johnson, Managing Editor ↓
    1. Vol. 1, No. 1. September 1932.[8]
    2. Vol. 1, No. 2. October 1932.
    3. Vol. 1, No. 3. November 1932.
    4. Vol. 1, No. 4. December 1932.
    5. Vol. 1, No. 5. January 1933.
    6. Vol. 1, No. 6. February 1933.
    7. Vol. 2, No. 6. February 1934.
    8. Vol. 2, No. 7. March 1934 – via Internet Archive Free access icon.
Wrong info → Final issue → Vol. 3, No. 2
This is the final issue → Vol. 3, No. 7. March 1935.[8]

Other publication of The Gramophone Shop[edit]

  • Gilbert, Richard (1930). The Gramophone Shop's Encyclopedia.


    1. Supplement. n.d. LCCN sv91-49863.
    2. Supplement. 1938. LCCN 2022-204029
    1. Via HathiTrust. (University of Michigan Library). 1942.
    2. Via HathiTrust. (UC Berkeley). 1942.
    3. 3rd ed., revised & enlarged. Greenwood Press. 1970. LCCN 70-95122



Bibliography[edit]

Annotations[edit]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Saturday Review April 10, 1954, pp. 54–55.
  2. ^ a b Hoffman, "Gramophone Shop", p. 453.
  3. ^ American Record Guide, October 1946.
  4. ^ Atlanta, October 9, 2020, pp. 72–76.
  5. ^ Atlanta Constitution, September 14, 1948, p. 19.
  6. ^ Shellackophile, December 15, 2010.
  7. ^ Talking Machine World, July 1928, p. 75.
  8. ^ a b Milligan, December 1980, p. 282.

References[edit]



    1. Digital version of the print edition.



  • Hoffman, Frank; Ferstler, Howard, eds. (2005) [1993]. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound (2 Vols.) (2nd ed.). Routledge. LCCN 2003-26491
    1. Vol. 1: "A–L"" – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation).
      1. "Criticism". p. 453.
      2. "Gramophone Shop". p. 453.
    2. Vol. 2: "M–Z" & "Index" – via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation).





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