78 RPM - Comments by W.B.lbl

78 RPM - Comments by W.B.lbl

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
W.B.lbl 22nd Oct 2023		78 RPM Ralph Crane - Away For Rio / Blow The Man Down (1928)	Begs the question as to the diameter of the A side {Image #3402629} center label and pressing ring, compared to the B side {Image #3402630}.
W.B.lbl 21st Oct 2023		78 RPM Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra - Afternoon Of A Faun (1927)	By any label name, this was taken out of the catalogue once Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded a newer version in late 1940 for 1941 release (Victor Red Seal / RCA Victor Red Seal 17700).
W.B.lbl 17th Oct 2023		78 RPM Sir Thomas Beecham And Royal Philharmonic Orch. - On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring (1928)	Wonder what the label diameter would be - 3.5"? And the inner and outer dimensions of the deep groove; I actually saw such a larger deep groove on another post-1931 Columbia 78 pressing way back when.
W.B.lbl 8th Oct 2023		78 RPM Harry James - One O'Clock Jump / Two O'Clock Jump (1941)	The "For perfect tone..." language first showed up in January 1942, hence {Images #1444450 & 1444451} without that blurb has been moved to before {Images #1005513 & 1005514} which do have it.
W.B.lbl 8th Oct 2023		78 RPM Various Artists - Theme Songs (1941)	{Images #3391526 & 3391528} was a Hollywood pressing, the rest bear Bridgeport label fonts.
W.B.lbl 5th Oct 2023		78 RPM The King Cole Trio - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You / I Realize Now (1944)	From what I've gauged, the "anvil" existed from the time the Scranton Record Co. came into existence (superseding Scranton Button Co.). Unless my mind's playing tricks on me somehow (a rarity, given my usual eye and ear for detail). Whichever way you slice it, however, {Images #1243006 & 1243007} is definitely a circa 1945-46 pressing. (The "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." from what I gathered, first showed up around 1947.)
W.B.lbl 5th Oct 2023		78 RPM King Cole Trio - Sweet Lorraine / Embraceable You (1944)	Capitol was one of the first - if not THE first - of the major labels to use magnetic tape, in 1948. Thus they were in an advantageous position once the second AFM recording ban ended that December. They started out with the Ampex 200's where the recording head was opposite from future models. I don't think the other labels got into tape until early on in the next year. Based on what I read in an Al Jolson discography, Decca didn't get on board the tape cavalcade until the middle of '49, and again with 200's. Columbia got Ampex 300's starting around Spring 1949. RCA Victor had their own brand tape machines to record and play back with.
W.B.lbl 3rd Oct 2023		78 RPM Eddie Hunter - Hard Times / Mamie (1924)	Curious, what would the label diameter size (and accompanying ring) have been on this one?
W.B.lbl 24th Sep 2023		78 RPM The Five Scalders - If Only You Were Mine / There Will Come A Time (1954)	They probably had a crystal ball that predicted two different labels decades down the road - one still existing that specializes in bluegrass music, the other a pioneering rap label that no longer exists.
W.B.lbl 15th Sep 2023		78 RPM Steve Miller's Four Barons - Mixed Fruit / Rainy Weather Blues (1949)	Well, the far better-known Steve Miller was a wee lad when this was put out, so . . . certainly t'ain't him.
W.B.lbl 1st Sep 2023		78 RPM Kay Kyser - Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition! / I Came Here To Talk For Joe (1942)	The new {Images #3367045 & 3367046} was a Hollywood variant from an unknown printer who also handled Capitol from its inception this same year until 1950; {Images #1195254 & 1195256}, of course, is Bridgeport. Also notice, on the left of the Hollywood variant, how that blurb is laid out. Contrasts wildly with how Bridgeport did so.
W.B.lbl 14th Aug 2023		78 RPM Walter Davis - Howling Wind Blues / Pleading To My Baby Blues (1932)	Let me guess . . . the center label is 2.6875" diameter (and 2.4375" pressing ring)?
W.B.lbl 11th Aug 2023		78 RPM 101 Ranch Boys - Daddy Don't 'Low No Foolin' 'Round / Little Brown Jug (1947)	Would the "Ernest Ford" co-credited with Side A in any way be the future "Tennessee Ernie"?
W.B.lbl 5th Aug 2023		78 RPM Geo. Beverly Shea - He The Pearly Gates Will Open / Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know (1950)	West Coast pressings (as here) listed the artist as George B. Shea - and the organist as Doug Fisher.
W.B.lbl 30th Jun 2023		78 RPM Zeke Williams And His Rambling Cowboys - The Cowboy's Dream / What A Friend We Have In Jesus (1938)	So here we are: 14 point Erbar Bold Condensed with Light Condensed was in the print shops of various East Coast plants of Columbia (at this juncture ARC) from January 1938 to early April 1970.
W.B.lbl 23rd Jun 2023		78 RPM The Carter Family - When The Sunset Turns The Ocean Blue To Gold / The Titanic	About the B side: Ironic the timing of putting this up, given the recent news . . .
W.B.lbl 15th May 2023		78 RPM Dick Robertson - Toodle-Oo / You'll Never Go To Heaven (If You Break My Heart) (1937)	Re. the B side: 27 years before Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)."
W.B.lbl 14th May 2023		78 RPM Teddy Wilson - Guess Who / It's Like Reaching For The Moon (1936)	A Bridgeport pressing, but one of the last to feature 5 point No. 3 with Gothic No. 4 as dated back to the 1910's. I don't know why, but thereafter its use faded away, having been supplanted by 6 point No. 11 with Gothic Condensed No. 4.
W.B.lbl 14th May 2023		78 RPM Cab Calloway - When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) / Are You In Love With Me Again? (1936)	10 point Gothic No. 13 (in tandem with Cheltenham Bold Condensed) was part of the Bridgeport type library from 1924 to 1936. This was one of the last if not THE last.
W.B.lbl 13th May 2023		78 RPM Savannah Churchill With The Striders - Once There Lived A Fool / When You Came Back To Me (1951)	Columbia Bridgeport pressed the 78; the 45 release, oddly, had all its label type by Queens Litho / Kaltman Press - and the template for the label design was apparently reused by Queens for the 45 RPM Atlantic label design, as at upper right the same "45 R. P. M." as on the first 22 years or so of Atlantic 45's was in place right there in the same spot.
W.B.lbl 11th May 2023		78 RPM Lecuona Cuban Boys - Ay! Mamá Inés / Invocando A Changó (1946)	On regular releases. The template here had 'SERIE INTERNACIONAL' on the top rim, and apparently it took awhile before a 'SERIE INTERNACIONAL' label template was fused with the newer 'RCA VICTOR' layout not on here, if this release is of any indication.
W.B.lbl 6th May 2023		78 RPM [no artist listed] - I Ain't Got Nobody Much (1917)	I presume that label would be 1.75" diameter?
W.B.lbl 2nd May 2023		78 RPM The Blue Shadows - Coming On Strong / Hell Stays Open All Night Long (1993)	Was the center label more or less 3" diameter, or . . . ?
W.B.lbl 26th Apr 2023		78 RPM Ada Jones And Len Spencer - The Suffragettes (1910)	It looks by this that the typographers that set the label also had Victor as a client.
W.B.lbl 23rd Apr 2023		78 RPM The Georgians - You Better Keep Babying Baby / I've Got A Cross-Eyed Papa (1924)	I know the label itself would be ~3.5", but would anyone have any idea as to the outer and inner dimensions of the deep groove?
W.B.lbl 23rd Apr 2023		78 RPM Traian E. Birău - In Juneta Mea. Čea Fragǎ / Nu Stiu Če Tot Are Luna (1924)	And how. 10 point Gothic Condensed No. 1 and 7 point Gothic No. 4 (the wider shape letters and widely-spaced condensed letters indicate a tandem with 7 point serif No. 1) were the fonts in Bridgeport's type library at the time.
W.B.lbl 23rd Apr 2023		78 RPM Traian E. Birău - Christos A Invieat / Feciora Astezi (1926)	The typesetting wasn't done in New York, it was handled in-house by Columbia's own Bridgeport, CT plant.
W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2023		78 RPM Alfred G. Karnes - Called To The Foreign Field / Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath The Clay (1930)	Actually would be about ~2.9375" diameter, with about ~2.75" pressing ring. This was (RCA) Victor's standard from c.1929-30 to the mid-1940's, and again from 1954 (when the color "black label, dog on top" label design was first introduced) to 1958 in the U.S. and 1959-60 in Canada.
W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2023		78 RPM York Bros. - Hamtramck Mama / That Nagging Young Husey	Some three decades before another Hot Wax label sprung forth in Detroit, under Holland, Dozier and Holland.
W.B.lbl 21st Apr 2023		78 RPM Alfred G. Karnes - Called To The Foreign Field / Do Not Wait 'Till I'm Laid 'Neath The Clay (1930)	I take it this was from when Victor, beaten down by the Depression, was *reeeeeeaaalllly* economizing by shrinking their labels to 2.6875" - or was it even smaller here?

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