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Music Lovers' Guide (MLG) was an American monthly magazine for record enthusiasts that ran from 1932 to 1935. The first issue was dated September 1932 (Vol. 1, no. 1). Axel B. Johnson was founding editor and Robert Donaldson Darrell (1903–1988), founding associate editor. Its publisher, the Music Lovers' Guide Publishing Co., had an address of 42 East 20th Street, Manhattan – the current the address of Grammercy Tavern, in a neighborhood known since 1985 as the Flatiron District. The publishing company was owned by the New York Band Instrument Company, ostensibly The Gramophone Shop, Inc., headed by Joe Brogan (né Joseph Francis Brogan; 1893–1965) and William Henry Tyler (1899–1948).

History
Music Lovers' Guide was the successor to the Phonograph Monthly Review. That is, its Editor, Axel B. Johnson, and Associate Editor, Robert Donaldson Darrell, were the same. Differences were in ownership. Like its predecessor, the magazine was still considered independent, in so far as it was not owned by a record label.

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 * 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. That address, from 1975 to 2004, was the fabled 24-hour nightclub, Backstreet, "the Studio 54 of the South." 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." The original Gramophone Shop in New York closed its doors for good early in 1954. Posten was a 1947 graduate of Georgia Tech.


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 * (1st ed; 1930) (2nd ed.; 1931);  (1st ed.; 1930),  (2nd ed.; 1931).



   
 * Tim Gracyk, a discography historian, points out that Walsh's articles in the Music Lover's Guide "are long and therefore more satisfying than his early Hobbies articles, which were restricted to about a page each issue. Hobbies was a monthly magazine that ran from 1945 to 1985.

The Music Lovers' Guide (digitized online)

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 * The name, Music Lovers' Guide was conceived as early as 1931 by the New York Band Instrument Company.

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 * "The American Music Lover, at 12 East 22nd Street, aims to carry on the program outlined in the editorial which appeared in the February issue of the now-discontinued Music Lovers' Guide. It will, however, be in a better position to fulfill the purpose and intentions of that publication."
 * "The American Music Lover is independently published and owned. It is not affliated with any radio or record dealer or manufacturer."
 * "Back copies of The Music Lovers' Guide can be obtained from us at fifteen cents a copy. Have you the first three issues of The American Music Lover? These are being rapidly exhausted, so order now."
 * Peter Hugh Reed.

Contributors

 * Harry Lancelot Anderson (b. 14 March 1910; Guadalajara, Mexico; British, national). Musicologist; Pianist; Piano Teacher. Educ: San Diego Teachers College (San Diego State University); private study of Piano, Theory & Composition, California & London, UK. m. Mary Lee Caldwell, Career: Recitals & broadcasts, San Diego, NYC, S Africa & NM, also in Ceylon during RAF serv., WWII; Lecture course on dev. on keyboard music, San Diego, Rsch. into hist, of piano playing & esp. of piano recording as histl. documentary; large collection of source material. Recordings: Pieces by Medtner; works of Morris Ruger (private). Contributor to: Saturday Review, Musical Courier, Phonograph Monthly, Music Lovers Guide, Recorded Sound, UK. Hobbies: Reading; Handicrafts. Address: 4080 32nd St., San Diego, CA 92104, USA.

Selected articles



 * I've admired other Darrell articles, too: a 1934 appreciation of Gottschalk, and, from the same year, a sequel to the article about American music on recordings, where Darrell shared opinions startling for their early date. Of Ives, he wrote: "It is to professional musicians' lasting disgrace that they have consistently ignored his work ... The future generation is going to have sardonic contempt of us for ignoring Ives and his music so long." And of Ellington, "In my opinion Ellington as a composer is an individualist, overshadowing the hot jazz school from which he stems, and to be considered on his merits as the greatest composer (serious or jazz) in the smaller forms that America has yet produced."


 * "the isolated genius 'largely self-taught, a businessman rather than a professional musician, tied to no schools and refusing to propagandize his own."




 * Scholl (né Warren Wadsworth Scholl; 1913–1992), in the 1930s, was a New York correspondent for London's Melody Maker and also wrote feature articles for Down Beat. "Here in America, where the best in hot jazz emanates, no other band (colored or white) can boast the originality and versatility of Ellington. As jazz king, he has superseded Paul Whiteman."











It wasn't until Music Lovers' Guide's successor, the American Music Lover, that Manhattan-born Archetti (1907–1983) wrote his first jazz criticism. Ron Welburn, in 1985, asserted that Archetti "remains the most neglected jazz journalist-critic of the 1930s. Archetti put forth perceptive judgements in his relatively few articles, not being a record reviewer in the usual sense but rather a reporter and essayist whose articles ranged from 1000 to 1500 words." Moreover, in the article, Archetti criticized other critics for having, "dismissed [Reminiscing] as a failure without any attempt being made to analyze or understand the work. To them it was something in which the rhythm could not be tapped out with a foot nor the melody whistled."





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 * Arthur Henry Brandenburg (1899–1986), music educator, and band director at Battin High School in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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 * Dorian (1869–1940), when he died, had been associated with Columbia Phonograph Company for over 40 years.

The Gramophone Shop




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