Safheh Sangi
by: Amir Mansour
"Safheh Sangi" means 78 rpm record in Persian and is chosen as the name of journal. Persian discography and surveys in history of Persian music during last 150 years are main subjects that categorized in labelography, discography, interesting records, documents and surveys. Publishing of journal started on be half of the first recording session in Tehran in 1906. It is a quarterly in 30 B&W pages and in color covers including more than 50 label scans and distribution is just for members of Persian music research session inside Iran and for other researchers from all over the world who order through this site.
The list of articles of "Safheh Sangi" (PDJ) in its first five years (2005 - 2009):
| Safheh Sangi (the Persian Discography Journal): | |||||||
| Index of articles of the first year (2005) | PC: Persian cover, EC: English cover | ||||||
| No. | year | title of article | category | language | pages | Author published in | |
| 1 | 1 | The first note | Editor's note | Persian | 1 | Amir Mansour March 2005 | |
| 1-PC | 1 |
Polyphon Persian records (1927) صفحه های فارسی پولیفون - سال 1306 شمسی |
labelography | Persian | 3 (2-4) | Amir Mansour | |
| 1-EC | 1 | Discography of first Iranian female singers in Qajar era | discography | Persian | 10 (5-14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 1 | 1 | Who is Ghobad khan? | interesting records | Persian | 2 (15&16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 1 | 1 | Edison - Bell Persian record | interesting records | Persian | 2 (17&18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 1 | 1 | HMV catalog of Persian records (first release in 1930) | documents | Persian | 5 (19-23) | ||
| 1 | 1 | Religious 78 rpm Persian records | surveys | Persian | 4 (24-27) | Amir Mansour | |
| 1 | 1 | History of Persian shellac 78 rpm records | surveys | English | 3 (27-30) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | The national documents named 78rpm records | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour June 2005 | |
| 2-PC | 1 | Gramophone Concert Record (Persian recordings in London - 1909) | labelography | Persian | 5 (3-7) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2-EC | 1 | Discography of "Salim khan" | discography | Persian | 6 (8-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | Discography of "Sheikh Karna" | discography | Persian | 3 (14-16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | Catherine A. Setkhanian; The first female pianist in Persian records | interesting records | Persian | 2 (17&18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | Abolali Homayoun & Bayat e Tehran | interesting records | Persian | 2 (19&20) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | Regulation of sound recording in Iran (1928) | documents | Persian | 3 (21-23) | Shahram Aghayypour | |
| 2 | 1 | The first vinyl LPs in Iran | surveys | Persian | 4 (24-27) | Amir Mansour | |
| 2 | 1 | Delbar records | discography | English | 3 (28-30) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | A brief review in Badizadeh memories | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour September 2005 | |
| 3-PC | 1 | Columbia Persian record (1947) | labelography | Persian | 3 (3-5) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3-EC | 1 | Discography of Nayyer Aazam Rumi | discography | Persian | 4 (6-9) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | 78 rpm records of acting in Qajar era | discography | Persian | 4 (10-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | Who is Mahin khanom | interesting records | Persian | 2 (14&15) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | Setar in Persian Records | interesting records | Persian | 4 (16-19) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | Persian 78s in advertisements | documents | Persian | 3 (20-22) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | Saba's 78 rpm recordings | surveys | Persian | 4 (23-26) | Amir Mansour | |
| 3 | 1 | The rarest Persian records of Indian artists | surveys | Persian | 4 (27-30) | Javad Mahyar +Amir Mansour | |
| 4 | 1 | 78 rpm Records as a media in Iran | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour December 2005 | |
| 4-PC | 1 | Sodwa Persian 78 rpm records (1939) | labelography | Persian | 3 (3-5) | Amir Mansour | |
| 4-EC | 1 | Discography of “Qamar-ol-molook Waziri” | discography | Persian | 23 (6-29) | Amir Mansour | |
| 4 | 1 | Who is “Hossein khan Tehrani”? | interesting records | Persian | 2 (29730) | Amir Mansour | |
| Safheh Sangi (the Persian Discography Journal): | |||||||
| Index of articles of the second year (2006) | |||||||
| No. | year | title of article | category | language | pages | Author published in | |
| 5 | 2 | About Discography & Labelography | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour March 2006 | |
| 5-PC | 2 | Concert Record Gramophone (1912): labelography | labelography | Persian | 3 (3-5) | Amir Mansour | |
| 5-EC | 2 | Concert Record Gramophone (1912): a complete discography | discography | Persian | 9 (6-14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 5 | 2 | Parvaneh; Date of her death | interesting records | Persian | 2 (15&16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 5 | 2 | Records by Vafadar family | interesting records | Persian | 3 (16-19) | Amir Mansourr | |
| 5 | 2 | Chang; A Persian Music quarterly (1946) | documents | Persian | 4 (20-23) | Alireza Shamohammadi | |
| 5 | 2 | Odeon Records history | surveys | Persian | 3 (24-26) | Javad Mahyar | |
| 5 | 2 | The Pioneers of Persian Discography | surveys | Persian | 4 (27-30) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | Dark edges in Iranian contemporary music history | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour June 2006 | |
| 6-PC | 2 | Indian made Persian 78s: Young Iran (1946) | labelography | English | 5 (26-30) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6-EC | 2 | Discography of Jamal Safavi | discography | Persian | 8 (3-10) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | Who is Shamsi khanom? | interesting records | Persian | 1 (11) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | A special record of Banan: monajat | interesting records | Persian | 2 (12&13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | The first record of Agha Hosseingholi | interesting records | Persian | 1 (14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | A list of “TOP4” 45 rpm records | documents | Persian | 4 (15-18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 6 | 2 | Armenian names on Persian 78 rpm record labels | surveys | Persian | 7 (19-25) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7 | 2 | Discography relations | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour September 2006 | |
| 7-PC | 2 | Jamshid (Persian Recoding Co.) – 1949 NY | labelography | Persian | 2 (3&4) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7-EC | 2 | Daily discography of recordings in London-1909 | discography | Persian | 22 (5-26) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7 | 2 | Parsi wedding song in India-1905 | interesting records | Persian | 1 (27) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7 | 2 | A German recorded Polyphon for Iran | interesting records | Persian | 1 (28) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7 | 2 | Lobat, a tasnif by Davami | interesting records | Persian | 1 (29) | Amir Mansour | |
| 7 | 2 | A concert in Tabriz of Pishevari government - 1946 | documents | Persian | 4 (30-33) | Alireza Shamohammadi | |
| 7 | 2 | Cairo practice | surveys | Persian | 4 (34-37) | Javad Mahyar | |
| 8 | 2 | About “Safheh Sangi” | Editor's note | Persian | 1 (1) | Amir Mansour December 2006 | |
| 8-PC | 2 | Persian Pathe records-1928 | labelography | Persian | 5 (2-6) | Amir Mansour | |
| 8-EC | 2 | Rezagholi mirza Zelli; a survey in his history, discography & works | discography | Persian | 9 (7-15) | Mohammad Reza Sharayeli | |
| 8 | 2 | A record by Iran-Austria Cultural Relation Society | interesting records | Persian | 1 (16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 8 | 2 | "Khazan e Eshgh"; The first recording in Allepo - Syria | interesting records | Persian | 1 (17) | Amir Mansour | |
| 8 | 2 | Who is "Mahrokh khanom"? | interesting records | Persian | 1 (18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 8 | 2 | Zang, a Persian journal of 1940's in music | documents | Persian | 4 (19-22) | Alireza Shamohammadi | |
| 8 | 2 | Gramophone goes to east | surveys | Persian | 3 (23-25) | Javad Mahyar | |
| 8 | 2 | Persian females on 78s | surveys | Persian | 6 (26-31) | Amir Mansour | |
| 8 | 2 | Graphic on labels of Persian 78s | surveys | Persian | 5 (32-36) | Amir Mansour | |
| Safheh Sangi (the Persian Discography Journal): | |||||||
| Index of articles of the third year (2007) | |||||||
| No. | year | title of article | category | language | pages | Author published in | |
| 9 | 3 | Discography paper documents | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour March 2007 | |
| 9-PC | 3 | When I was in Berlin: Odeon Persian recordings 1937 | labelography | Persian | 8 (3-10) | Amir Mansour | |
| 9-EC | 3 | Discography of "Adib Khansari" | discography | Persian | 7 (11-17) | Mohammad Reza Sharayeli | |
| 9 | 3 | Discography of "Hosseinali khan Nakisa" | discography | Persian | 3 (18-20) | Amir Mansour | |
| 9 | 3 | Mara bebus | interesting records | Persian | 5 (21-25) | Amir Mansourr | |
| 9 | 3 | Polyphon Persian Catalog 1929 (III) | documents | Persian | 3 (26-28) | Amir Mansour | |
| 9 | 3 | Kurdish 78s | surveys | English | 4 (29-32) | Amir Mansour | |
| 10 | 3 | Persian recordings; a relationship in cultural Iran area | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour June 2007 | |
| 10 | 3 | Khorshid records; Persian recordings in Paris 1907 | labelography | Persian | 22 (3-24) | Amir Mansour | |
| 10 | 3 | Hit LPs and reproducing western LPs in Iran | discography | Persian | 3 (25-27) | Sanjar Sarabandi | |
| 10 | 3 | Blue Star Company; a new found label | interesting records | Persian | 1 (28) | Amir Mansour | |
| 10 | 3 | Carmen; a new found label | interesting records | Persian | 1 (29) | Amir Mansour | |
| 10 | 3 | Tehran; a new found label produced in India | interesting records | Persian | 1 (30) | Amir Mansour | |
| 10 | 3 | A musicological survey in Agha Hosseingholi recordings in Paris | surveys | Persian | 4 (31-34) | Salman Salek | |
| 11 | 3 | A fund for Persian Discography | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour September 2007 | |
| 11 | 3 | Monarc-Record (Anker) Persian records 1914 | labelography | Persian | 3 (3-5) | Amir Mansour | |
| 11 | 3 | Persian private 78 rpm records | interesting records | Persian | 3 (5-8) | Amir Mansour | |
| 11 | 3 | Courtesy of Bagher khan Rameshgar | surveys | Persian | 5 (9-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 11 | 3 | Transferred Persian 78s to 45s | surveys | Persian | 4 (14-17) | Amir Mansour | |
| 11 | 3 | "Tehran" a music piece for Nassereddin Shah's visit of France | documents | Persian | 11 (18-28) | Amir Mansour | |
| 11 | 3 | A complete list of Persian Polyphon records 1927/1928 | documents | English | 8 (29-36) | Amir Mansour | |
| 12 | 3 | Readers of “Safheh Sangi” | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour December 2007 | |
| 12 | 3 | Yahya Zarpanjeh; a survey in his life, discography & works | discography | Persian | 12 (3-14) | Zeineddin + Sharayeli | |
| 12 | 3 | Safdar khan on Ney; A recording of 1906 | interesting records | Persian | 1 (15) | Amir Mansour | |
| 12 | 3 | A tasnif by Molook khanom on Parlophon | interesting records | Persian | 2 (16&17) | Amir Mansour | |
| 12 | 3 | The first "Ahang" label vinyl 7" EP | interesting records | Persian | 1 (18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 12 | 3 | "School Hymns" by Alinaghi Waziri | documents | Persian | 3 (19-21) | Amir Mansour | |
| 12 | 3 | A brief history of the World Pop Music in Iran | surveys | Persian | 15 (22-37) | Amir Mansour | |
| Safheh Sangi (the Persian Discography Journal): | |||||||
| Index of articles of the fourth year (2008) | |||||||
| No. | year | title of article | category | language | pages | Author published in | |
| 13 | 4 | Special issue on Catalogs of Persian 78 rpm records | Persian | 32 (1-32) | Amir Mansour March 2008 | ||
| 14 | 4 | The 14th “Safheh Sangi” | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour June 2008 | |
| 14 | 4 | Societe Orientale de disques, SODWA’ Alep-1936 | labelography | Persian | 2 (3&4) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | Discography of Seyyed Ali Asghar Kurdestani | discography | Persian | 8 (5-12) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | A special copy of HMV-AX379 of Qamar | interesting records | Persian | 2 (13&14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | Jamal Safavi on Columbia USA made | interesting records | Persian | 2 (15&16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | Turkish religious 78s | interesting records | Persian | 2 (17&18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | Documents of The Society of Scientific Music | documents | Persian | 5 (19-23) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | “Lemaire” and Persian recordings | surveys | Persian | 4 (24-27) | Amir Mansour | |
| 14 | 4 | Operettes on Persian 78s (1- Works of Pari Aghababof) | surveys | Persian | 5 (28-32) | Amir Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | The records market in Iran | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour September 2008 | |
| 15 | 4 | Top4 EPs; The main label of reproducing world music in Iran | labelography | Persian | 10 (3&12) | Sanjar Sarabandi & Amir Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | Discography of Top4 EPs | discography | English | 24 (13-36) | Sanjar Sarabandi & Amir Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | “Ey Iran” as “Rouhollah Khaleghi” reports | documents | Persian | 4 (37-40) | Alireza Shamohammadi+A. Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | The first Assyrian recording in Tehran | interesting records | Persian | 1 (41) | Amir Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | Hassan Ghassab (Lahni) records of 1906 | interesting records | Persian | 1 (42) | Amir Mansour | |
| 15 | 4 | A solo violin by Ebrahim Mansouri on Pathe | interesting records | Persian | 1 (43) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | The Persian records and Iran cultural area | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour December 2008 | |
| 16 | 4 | “ROYAL” 78 rpm records | labelography | Persian | 4 (3-6) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | “Taj Esfahani”; The life and works | discography | Persian | 7 (7-13) | Mohammad Reza Sharayeli | |
| 16 | 4 | The Persian records on “Buenas Nuevas” | interesting records | Persian | 1 (14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | Advertisement on the Persian records | interesting records | Persian | 1 (15) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | Who is “Janet Santapolo”? | interesting records | Persian | 1 (16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | Rare photos of music in Mavar’annahr | documents | Persian | 5 (17-21) | Amir Mansour | |
| 16 | 4 | Recording industry in “Tabriz” | surveys | Persian | 20 (22-41) | Amir Mansour | |
| Safheh Sangi (the Persian Discography Journal): | |||||||
| Index of articles of the fifth year (2009) | |||||||
| No. | year | title of article | category | language | pages | Author published in | |
| 17 | 5 | Similarities in rare recordings in Iran cultural area | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour March 2009 | |
| 17 | 5 | “Musical Records” 78s | labelography | Persian | 8 (3-10) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | Discography of Hossein khan Esmayylzadeh | discography | Persian | 3 (11-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | Baidaphon; The first Persian recordings | discography | Persian | 9 (14-22) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | Some more data of “Jamshid” records | interesting records | Persian | 2 (23-24) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | A tar solo record by “Yousef Kamousi” | interesting records | Persian | 1 (25) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | The first “Bayat Tehran” record | interesting records | Persian | 1 (26) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | The catalog of the 3rd series of Persian HMV; 1934 | documents | Persian | 8 (27-34) | Amir Mansour | |
| 17 | 5 | Operetta on Persian 78s: 2- Molook khanom | surveys | Persian | 4 (35-38) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | Persian discography and folk songs | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour June 2009 | |
| 18 | 5 | "Radio Afghanistan" 78s | labelography | Persian | 2 (3-4) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | The last Persian recordings for Columbia in Tehran (1947) | discography | Persian | 5 (5-9) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | Comic recordings by "Mr. Toyouri" | interesting records | Persian | 2 (10-11) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | The word "Persian" on the world 78s | interesting records | Persian | 2 (12-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | Two LPs by "Ruben Gregorian" | interesting records | Persian | 2 (14-15) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | "Parviz Khatibi" and 78 rpm recordings | documents | Persian | 3 (16-18) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | The first Persian recordings in India | surveys | Persian | 3 (19-21) | Amir Mansour | |
| 18 | 5 | Graphic and cover design of Persian 45 rpm vinyl records | surveys | Persian | 15 (22-36) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | Developments in discography literature | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour September 2009 | |
| 19 | 5 | "His Master's Voice" persian 78s (1926) | labelography | Persian | 5 (3-7) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | Discography of"Malakeh Boroomand" | discography | Persian | 6 (8-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | A record by "Gholi khan Yavar" (1906) | interesting records | Persian | 1 (14) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | Ayatolkorsi by "Badizadeh" | interesting records | Persian | 1 (15) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | A Tasnif named "Sattar khan" | interesting records | Persian | 1 (16) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | A catalog of "Royal" Persian 45 rpm vinyl records | documents | Persian | 10 (17-26) | Amir Mansour | |
| 19 | 5 | Structure of Dastgah music in Qajar era in the mirror of Gramophone Co. records of 1906 | surveys | Persian | 6 (27-32) | Salman Salek | |
| 19 | 5 | An estimate of all 78 rpm records of Iranian artists | surveys | Persian | 4 (33-36) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | “Safheh Sangi” after 5 years | Editor's note | Persian | 2 (1&2) | Amir Mansour December 2009 | |
| 20 | 5 | "Arabphone" 78 rpm records | labelography | Persian | 3 (3-5) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | Piano on Persian 78 rpm records | discography | Persian | 5 (6-10) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | Banan 's discography on records | discography | Persian | 3 (11-13) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | some rare records of Qajar era | interesting records | Persian | 4 (14-17) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | A look at "Asr e Hadid" magazine | documents | Persian | 8 (18-25) | Amir Mansour | |
| 20 | 5 | A brief history of Iranian Beat Bands | surveys | Persian | 11 (26-36) | Amir Mansour | |
Below, you can see some covers of published journals including their contents in Persian and English:
PDJ Vol # 1
PDJ Vol # 2
PDJ Vol # 3
PDJ Vol # 4
PDJ Vol # 5
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