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 10th Apr 2023		78 RPM Claude Kirchner - Cinderella Part 1 / Cinderella Part 2 (1950)	Wondering what'd be the label size - 3" perhaps?
W.B.lbl 2nd Apr 2023		78 RPM Marilyn Monroe - The River Of No Return / I'm Gonna File My Claim (1954)	Sadly, the 45 promo was far more ordinary - no photo of her, just the regular "Record Prevue" label.
W.B.lbl 30th Mar 2023		78 RPM Helga Mott And Gerald Moore - Herzeleid (1951)	In those days the pressing dies were spaced according to imperial measurements: 2.75" for the large pressing ring, 0.75" (inside of which was the tax code) for the smaller ring - and ~3" for the center label. Wonder at what point the UK record companies (EMI included) switched to metric to formulate the specs for their pressing equipment.
W.B.lbl 29th Mar 2023		78 RPM John McCormack - Come Back To Erin (1910)	Don't worry, even with me researching all these years I'm still learning. ;-) But it's one thing to see a picture online, it's quite another to see these records in person.
W.B.lbl 29th Mar 2023		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Tarzan Of Harlem / A Bee Gezindt (1939)	In this case, the 'W' in the WM prefix indicated a recording made at the World Broadcasting studios at 711 Fifth Avenue, which Columbia had some stake in before it was sold to Decca in 1943.
W.B.lbl 27th Mar 2023		78 RPM John McCormack - Come Back To Erin (1910)	Wouldn't this "12" " record be 11.875"?
W.B.lbl 26th Mar 2023		78 RPM John McCormack - Come Back To Erin (1910)	Would like to know about the diameter size of the label (and pressing ring) for the earlier {Image #3249659}.
W.B.lbl 24th Mar 2023		78 RPM The Chords - Sh-Boom / Since I Met You Baby	Would've loved, in that set, to see at least one Led Zeppelin or Crosby, Stills And Nash . . .
W.B.lbl 24th Mar 2023		78 RPM Ray Charles - Hallelujah I Love Her So / Devil Or Angel	What, pray tell, would the center label size have been - or does nobody have such a pressing?
W.B.lbl 23rd Mar 2023		78 RPM Georgia Gibbs - Sweet And Gentle / Blueberries (1955)	Only once did I have a 78 break when scanning it. But I scan 78 labels at a very high resolution so I can make the necessary adjustments to X-Y ratios. Worked on many an LP, 45 and 78 label in Photoshop for some two decades.
W.B.lbl 22nd Mar 2023		78 RPM Georgia Gibbs - Sweet And Gentle / Blueberries (1955)	I've been scanning records for some two decades. Put them on a flatbed scanner, make necessary color corrections based on Pantone color values, and you're off. I've also abided by the "Bruce Spizer rule" I learnt from the author of many a book on Beatles LP's and 45's: Crop not only the area outside the label, but also the area of the spindle holes.
W.B.lbl 14th Mar 2023		78 RPM Martin And Roberts - Ninety-Nine Years / Prisoner No. 999 (1932)	Looks like the same printing house in the NYC metro that handled Decca in the late 1930's to about 1944, and Capitol (via Clark Phonograph Co. pressings) from its 1942 startup to 1943.
W.B.lbl 10th Mar 2023		78 RPM Jess Young's Tennessee Band - Sweet Bunch Of Daisies / Silver Bell (1929)	It should be noted that the newly-added {Images #3235453 & 3235455} is Bridgeport, while {Images #1721384 & 1721385} was pressed in Oakland, CA (where Columbia had a plant from about 1924 up to c.1935). The sans serif font was 10 point Gothic Condensed No. 1, which was in the print shops of Columbia East Coast plants (first Bridgeport, then Pitman) up to August 1967.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Tommy Walker And His Trojan-Aires - Songs of Troy (1953)	The 45 mx. of the B side is RR-22096.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Red Ingle And The Natural Seven - Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) / (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You) For Seventy Mental Reasons (1947)	Perchance this the first to have 'REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.' below the Capitol logohead?
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The Pied Pipers - Mam'selle / It's The Same Old Dream (1947)	I'd lean to May myself for one underlying reason: It was the first Capitol release, in numerical order, to feature among the Keystone type 6 point Intertype Futura Demi Bold. (Previously they used 7 point Gothic No. 3.)
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The International Jazzmen - If I Could Be With You / Riffamarole (1945)	And to think the singer on the A side would, in the early part of the next decade, be one of Capitol's biggest selling stars . . .
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM King Cole Trio - Sweet Lorraine / Embraceable You (1944)	{Images #1900048 & 1900049} should come in order before {Images #966190 & 966191}. Although 'Trainman' did label the latter set a 'repress' as it is, "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." positioned to the lower right of the 'p' in Capitol is a later add-on.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Tex Ritter And His Texans - There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder / I'm Wastin' My Tears On You (1944)	The Los Angeles printer that handled West Coast pressings of Capitol at this point seemed to have been some years behind the East Coast in what label design variant was used, before matching with Scranton's {Images #822044 & 822046} as seen on {Images #1870385 & 1870386}.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM The King Cole Trio - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You / I Realize Now (1944)	Capitol's ties to Scranton dated back to the earliest days of the label itself, 1942, when that plant was known as the independent Scranton Record Co. Capitol first put an option to buy the plant (and affiliated Scranton Distributing Co.) in 1944, and finally exercised it in 1946. When Capitol was started up, Scranton Record Co. was one of three plants that pressed for them at the outset. The others were Clark Phonograph Co. of Newark, NJ (which apparently was no longer pressing for them by this point) and Allied Record Manufacturing Co. of Los Angeles (prior to what was to be an affiliated West Coast outpost of Scranton Record being built, before it became Capitol Los Angeles upon completion).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Johnny Mercer And The Barries - San Fernando Valley / Someone's In The Kitchen With Dinah (1944)	Though no label is on here, Scranton pressings were the last to use mainly serif fonts for the label copy. For the next release they would go sans serif.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Ella Mae Morse - Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet / Tess's Torch Song (I Had A Man) (1944)	Scranton pressings as {Images #2160731 & 2160732} would have been one of the first on Capitol to use sans-serif fonts (from Keystone) unlike earlier releases with the serif type (very heavy on Cheltenham weights and sizes).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Paul Whiteman - Trav'lin' Light / You Were Never Lovelier (1942)	The plants: - {Images #431473 & 431474} - Allied Record Mfg. Co., Los Angeles, CA (unknown printer) - {Images #1728711 & 1728712} - Clark Phonograph Co., Newark, NJ (appears to have been typeset by the same printer that had handled Decca at the time) - {Images #2160723 & 2160724} - Scranton Record Co., Scranton, PA (printed by Keystone)
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Bobby Sherwood - The Elk's Parade / I Don't Know Why (1942)	It is likely Scranton metalwork was used on {Images #1475045 & 1475044}, as the Metroblack No. 2 label fonts seen point to a Los Angeles pressing (likely by Allied Record Mfg. Co. which handled the upstart label in its early years - and which corporate successor Allied Record Co. pressed selected promo 45's in the 1982-83 period, and LP and 45 product from 1986-89).
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Bunny Berigan - Bunny Berigan Memorial Album (1942)	Abe Osser as arranged "Trees" (as listed on {Images #423005 & 2722468}), would later be known professionally as Glenn Osser.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Teddy Wilson - Out Of Nowhere / You're My Favorite Memory (1944)	Looks like that smaller ring is 1.125" diameter, no? As alongside the usual Columbia deep groove (2.6875" / 2,828125", I take it?). That was a fixture of Columbia 78 pressings of this period, up to about early '45.
W.B.lbl 9th Mar 2023		78 RPM Teddy Wilson - Sailin' / I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Baby) (1936)	I know by this point ARC (then owners of Brunswick) had settled their label size at 3" - I presume this small deep groove was 1.125" diameter at the point leading to the spindle hole and 1.25" diameter at the point leading to the label edge?
W.B.lbl 8th Mar 2023		78 RPM Frank Wilson - The German's Arrival / Hi-Le-Hi-Lo (1913)	Wondering about the label sizes of {Images #3232763 & 3232764} (from 'xiphophilos') and {Images #3232698 & 3232699} (from 'cyeaman' - am I close about the label size being ~4.0625" and the pressing ring ~3.875"?). I know pre-1930 label sizes from all record labels were all over the place.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		78 RPM Suzy Williams - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Silent Night (1952)	Sounds like a 3.375" label, then.
W.B.lbl 7th Mar 2023		78 RPM Suzy Williams - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Silent Night (1952)	From what I recall, Peter Pan 78's in those days had a center label size of 3.25", I was wondering about the large and small pressing rings here.

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