DBASE IV AND ACCESS97 FORMATS
(Email me and I can upload you a copy)
HI! OLDIES FRIENDS & COLLECTORS
IT TOOK MANY YEARS COMPLETE AND LOTS OF RESEARCH FINDING THE DATES.
THE RELEASE YEARS THAT THE RECORDS CAME OUT. NLST MEANS I RESEARCHED
THE 45RPM RECORD AND COULD NOT FIND A YEAR LISTED FOR THAT RECORD.
I USED MUSIC MASTER THE 45 RPM DIRECTORY (FIRST EDITION), BUT
FROM WHAT I HEAR NOT ALL THE YEARS ARE CORRECT. ALSO IF THE YEAR
WAS LISTED ON THE LABEL, I USED THAT YEAR.
ON SOME RECORDS I GUESSED BY USING
A HIGHER/LOWER RECORD NUMBER WITH THERE YEARS LISTED.
THE TEXT FILES ON MY WEB PAGE (The Truck) CAN BE VIEWED
COPIED, AND PASTED INTO YOUR WORD PROCESSOR. PLEASE CLICK ON
(In the LINKS web page) COPY - PASTE BUTTON FOR HOW TO DO THIS..
THIS IS HOW MY 45RPM DATABASE IS SET UP :
FIELD NAME FIELD TYPE LENGTH OF FIELD
1 GROUP CHARACTER 40
2 LABEL CHARACTER 23
3 YEAR CHARACTER 4
4 SIDE_1 CHARACTER 53
5 SIDE1TIME CHARACTER 5
6 SIDE_2 CHARACTER 53
7 SIDE2TIME CHARACTER 5
8 RECORD_NUM CHARACTER 13
WHAT DO THE FIELDS CONTAIN?
LABEL - THE 45RPM RECORD LABEL (RECORD COMPANY)
GROUP - THE GROUP OR RECORD ARTIST
SIDE_1 -SIDE 1 TITLE OF THE 45RPM
SIDE_2 -SIDE 2 TITLE OF THE 45RPM
RECORD_NUM -THE NUMBER OF THE RECORD LISTED ON THE LABEL
YEAR -THE YEAR THE 45RPM CAME OUT (USED REFERENCE BOOK)
SIDE1TIME -LENGHT OF SIDE #1 OF RECORD
SIDE2TIME -LENGHT OF SIDE #2 OF RECORD
IF YOU ARE
GOING TO PRINT OUT MY DATABASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A MEGATON
OF PAPER ON YOUR PRINTER. Check out My Copy and Paste
TUTORIAL.
WHY WOULD I WANT A DATABASE OF 45RPM RECORDS ?.
IF YOU COLLECT RECORDS A LOT OF TIMES YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
THE YEAR OF A RECORD OR MAYBE YOU HEARD OF A SONG BY A GROUP
AND WANTED TO CONFIRM THAT IT EXISTS. YOU WANT TO KNOW ALL OF
THE RECORDS THE PLATTERS MADE. WHAT DIFFERENT GROUPS PUT OUT
THE SAME SONG. INSTANT INFORMATION ON OLDIES. TRIVIA QUESTIONS.
FLIP SIDES OF RECORDS. OBSCURE RECORDS. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF
THE REASONS FOR THIS 45RPM DATABASE.
{ALSO IF YOU OWN A LOT OF THE RECORDS ON THIS DATABASE YOU CAN
PRINT OUT LABELS FOR YOUR RECORDS}
I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. E-MAIL ME
YOURS IN SOUND JIM HURRAY (YOUNGBLOOD)
{MAGIC MUSIC MACHINE WYEP FM PGH.)
![]()