| Editor | Axel B. Johnson |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | The Phonograph Publishing Co., Inc. |
| Founder | Axel B. Johnson |
| First issue | October 1, 1926 (Vol. 1, no. 1) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Jamaica Plain, Boston |
| Language | English |
| OCLC | 11380159 |
Music Lovers' Phonograph Monthly Review (PMR) was an American magazine for record enthusiasts founded in Jamaica Plain, Boston, by Axel B. Johnson.[1] The first issue was dated October 1926 (Vol., no. 1)[a] – three years, six months after the first issue of Gramophone, a similar magazine founded in London by Compton Mackenzie.[2][3] As put by George Wilson Oman (1895–1947) – an Edinburgh-born Chicago-based telegraph operator and organizer of the Phonograph Art Society of Chicago[4] – "This magazine is to the United States what the Gramophone is to Great Britain and bids fair in its splendidly edited pages to rival the Gramophone."[5][6] The magazine ran for 66 issues – six and one-half years – ending March 1932 (Vol. 6, no. 6), under financial duress during the Great Depression.[7] Although, the suspension of the April and May 1932 issues has been attributed to, according to Gramophone magazine, "a misfortune of which we have only just heard from an American reader." "He says that the Editor, Mr. Axel Johnson, was kidnapped late in March, 'robbed, beaten unconscious and thrown from a speeding automobile.'"[8] PMR – through the succession of Music Lovers' Guide (1932–1935) and The American Music Lover (1935–1944) – is considered the forerunner to the American Record Guide.[9][10][11]
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