Brian Rust Author

BRIAN RUST is the author of the Discography of Historical Records on Cylinders and 78s (Greenwood, 1979) and Brian Rust's Guide to Discography (Greenwood, 1980). He has worked in the Gramophone Library of the BBC (London) and has frequently broadcast programs of recorded nostalgia.

TIM BROOKS is a television executive and past president of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. His articles about the history of the record industry may be found in the ARSC Journal, Record Research, The New Amberola Graphic, Storyville, Goldmine, Hillandale News, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.