Generic Label	This is the parent company, such as Victor (for RCA, Bluebird). If company is not listed, leave as 'Select-->' and change later on edit screen.
Label Variety	Deccaa: sunray (1934-37, actually exists in at least two variations)   Victor: pre-dog (1900-01), ???, 3-line Patents, 5-line Patents, batwing, scroll, ring   Columbia: notes, blue, flag, viva-tonal, red (all exist in several variations)
Common Name	E.g.       Bluebird, RCA
Title	Full title with punctuation exactly as on the label
Artist	Enter full text:     Jim's Dance Orchestra, Kevin Robin - Tenor
Composer	List exactly as shown on label:  E.g.   J. Williams - Clair Weeks
Catalog #	This is found on the label,  enter  'none'  if no catalog # is present
Matrix #	Enter as found on label, or engraved in wax in groove runout area, else enter 'none'
Colors on label	Enter  colors found, we prefer this list::    red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, white, black, grey, beige, tan, silver, gold,
Date issued	Enter only if you have reliable information about date, else leave blank
Label type	paper is the most common, the printed paper adhered to the melted shellac in the mold. paste-over means pasted on after the record was pressed pigmented means ink was pressed into the record surface embossed means the mold was used to press the information into the surface etched is for metal disks where the label image was created by acid through a mask foil is like paper above, but a metal foil is used instead of paper.
Groove type	Is the music encoded by varying the groove horizontally (lateral), or vertically?   Vertical is found on most thick Edison disks.  Or is the groove universal, meaning both vertical and horizontal movement is found.
Country	Country where disk is manufactured.  If made for sale in another country, enter the sale-country after the manufactured-country separated a slash.  For example,     England/India.      If you are not sure, leave blank.  If only country of manufacture is obvious, put just that country name, e.g if it says 'Made in Belgium'  just put the word Belgium
Comments	Entry anything you know about the label that would be helpful, and is not covered in the standard fields:       For instance:    This is the only known copy,  Single sided,  Part of album  CB-35A
Control field	Used by moderators to keep track of  edits and updates to this record.