78 RPM - Comments by W.B.lbl

78 RPM - Comments by W.B.lbl

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W.B.lbl ● 19th Jan 2025		78 RPM The Teenagers Featuring Frankie Lymon - Why Do Fools Fall In Love / Please Be Mine (1955)	I'd've left it at January 1956 in terms of its release and no exact day, especially given Billboard's "Review Spotlight" date. The label fonts on both copies shown are from Progressive Label & Litho Co. of Brooklyn, NY.
W.B.lbl ● 4th Jan 2025		78 RPM Records Of Knowledge Chorus - Songs Girl Scouts Sing (1953)	It was 1953 all right. For one thing, the E3-CB prefix signified that year (E = 1950, 3 = 3). Secondly, the label fonts also dated to that year.
W.B.lbl ● 2nd Dec 2024		78 RPM Don Charles Presents The Singing Dogs - Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake / Three Blind Mice (1955)	Yet when "Jingle Bells" as a stand-alone single was reissued starting in late 1971 by RCA in the U.S. and Canada, UK Pye regrettably did not follow suit.
W.B.lbl ● 12th Nov 2024		78 RPM Helga Mott And Gerald Moore - Herzeleid (1951)	In metrics, the pressing rings were 70mm and 19mm. The center label woudl have been 76.0mm (close to the U.S. 76.2mm).
W.B.lbl ● 16th Aug 2024		78 RPM Music In The Russ Morgan Manner - The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down / Toodle-Oo (1937)	West Coast pressings of this used the earlier Brunswick label design with gold leaf type. This was confirmed by: [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl ● 28th Jul 2024		78 RPM Cab Calloway - Nobody's Sweetheart / St. James' Infirmary (1931)	Funny, I'd've thought the Cheltenham {Images #3630345 & 3630346} was East Coast and the Century Expanded {Images #3630091 & 3630092} was West Coast, but . . .
W.B.lbl ● 26th Jul 2024		78 RPM Benny Goodman - Dr. Heckle And Mr. Jibe / Texas Tea Party (1933)	Some 50 years before Men At Work had a minor hit with another song whose title was similar to this A side.
W.B.lbl ● 4th Jul 2024		78 RPM Pat Boone - April Love / When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano (1957)	When die-cut, the 78 labels' X and Y axes (horizontal and vertical diameters, respectively) were 74.7mm (2.9409") and 74.8mm (2.9449"), with a center hole of 7.2mm (0.2835") drilled in. It lost about 0.7% of its original size (give or take) when pressed onto the record. Though dating to the late 1920's to c.1930, RCA (whose Indianapolis, IN plant pressed {Images #421354 & 421355}) revived this smaller label size when they inaugurated the 4-color Nipper label in 1954; before then, they used a die-cut label whose X and Y dimensions were 76.3mm (3.0039") and 76.4mm (3.0079"). The rim print was specifically laid out for 78 RPM use, and only used there; Bert-Co in Los Angeles shrunk the 45 RPM-orientated rim print for their use on 78 RPM pressings.
W.B.lbl ● 30th Jun 2024		78 RPM Peggy King - The Hottentot / Burn 'Em Up (1954)	The last-ever 78 promo on Columbia; with the next week's (12 July) releases, they switched exclusively to offering them on 45 RPM.
W.B.lbl ● 28th Jun 2024		78 RPM June Valli - I Understand / Love, Tears, And Kisses (1954)	On Indianapolis pressings, the "New Orthophonic High Fidelity" blurb was on the left side of the label. This was just as RCA Victor was on the eve of fully transitioning to the color Nipper label.
W.B.lbl ● 28th Jun 2024		78 RPM Stuart Hamblen - This Ole House / When My Lord Picks Up The 'Phone (1954)	Original Hollywood pressings used the “circle"”label (and, on 45 pressings, the earlier design for that speed). I’ve yet to see an Indianapolis copy on either speed with the color Nipper.
W.B.lbl ● 28th Jun 2024		78 RPM Stuart Hamblen - This Ole House / When My Lord Picks Up The 'Phone (1954)	The "circle" label {Images #1963051 & 2791672} came from Indianapolis, whereas the 4-color Nipper {Images #826230 & 826235} was a Hollywood pressing with label fonts from Bert-Co. So it was, too, on the 45 RPM 47-5739.
W.B.lbl ● 27th Jun 2024		78 RPM John Gordy - Isle Of Capri / Bye Bye Blues (1954)	Duly changed. The stock release also appears to have been the last on RCA Victor (at least on Indianapolis pressings) whereby the 78 label was die-cut at 76.2mm (3"). When they fully went to the color "Nipper," their label size changed to 74.6mm (2.937"). There is also now a link to the 45 RPM 47-5750 release. That old label design was retired along with this "circle" design, after this.
W.B.lbl ● 26th Jun 2024		78 RPM Perry Como - Wanted / Look Out The Window (And See How I'm Standing In The Rain) (1954)	This would appear to be the earliest 78 (and 45) release with the four-color Nipper design; its inaugural rollout was announced in the Dec. 26, 1953 issue of Billboard.
W.B.lbl ● 25th Jun 2024		78 RPM Eddie Fisher - A Girl, A Girl (Zoom-Ba Di Alli Nella) / Anema E Core (With All My Heart And Soul) (1954)	This was one of the earliest RCA Victor 78's (and 45's) with a new label design that was announced in the Dec. 26, 1953 issue of Billboard: RCA Redesigns Disk Label NEW YORK, Dec. 19. -- RCA Victor has re-designed its disk label and will introduce the new label next month on a few new albums. As the diskery's present stock of printed label forms runs out, the entire line of disks on all speeds will carry the new design. Basic change is the use of a four-color plate of the trademarked dog, which will be much larger than the one now used on disk labels. In effect, the newly-designed label will appear to be much more like the one used on HMV disks. All Victor disk products will eventually carry the new design.
W.B.lbl ● 20th Jun 2024		78 RPM Johnny Mathis - A Certain Smile / Let It Rain (1958)	A-ha! The smoking gun!
W.B.lbl ● 20th Jun 2024		78 RPM Hungarian Folk Dance Orchestra - Tapei Darudobogo / 1. Faridazo, 2. Paloc Csardas	Had this been issued on 45 (as MH-45-2079), the matrices would have been N8-OW-8706 and PK-4M-6486, respectively. Meaning here, on the latter: - N = 10" - 78 RPM - C = Mono - Standard
W.B.lbl ● 8th Jun 2024		78 RPM Ray McKinley - Howdy Friends (E.T.O. Curtain Call) / Ol' Tag Along (1949)	It appears this incarnation of Varsity used label type from the future Queens Litho (then simply known as Kaltman Press) in Long Island City, NY. (The earlier iteration used Keystone typesetting.)
W.B.lbl ● 5th Jun 2024		78 RPM Vep Ellis - I Have A Desire / Down From His Glory (1955)	The matrix numbers were assigned by RCA at their Chicago hub in 1955.
W.B.lbl ● 23rd May 2024		78 RPM Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians - So This Is Venice / Cy (1924)	Ironic, given that Richmond, IN would later be home to a pressing plant for his future label, Decca.
W.B.lbl ● 20th May 2024		78 RPM Tony Martinez - Bururu / Me Like You Chiquita (1949)	<E> signified a plating job by The Charles Eckard Company, an L.A. firm in business in the 1940's and early '50's.
W.B.lbl ● 20th May 2024		78 RPM Ricardo Duardo - Recuerdo De Un Cocktail / Divina Mujercita (1949)	Pressed between 1949 and 1953 (the year the patent for this "non-slip" type disc - US2631859A, later to be seen on many a Capitol label - was first granted).
W.B.lbl ● 2nd May 2024		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Cinderella (Part 1) / Cinderella (Part 2)	Based on the label fonts, I'd venture Australia.
W.B.lbl ● 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Cry / The Little White Cloud That Cried (1951)	Oh, and here's how "Cry" was meant to be heard, in the years before the "Electronically Re-Recorded To Simulate Stereo" nonsense: [YouTube Video]
W.B.lbl ● 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Johnnie Ray - Cry / The Little White Cloud That Cried (1951)	While this was climbing up the charts, and in its first few weeks at #1, Bridgeport was hit with a strike (lasted from 17 Dec 1951 to 14 Jan 1952). Copies exist of the 45 pressed by RCA in Canonsburg, PA; Capitol in Scranton, PA; and Shelley Products. My own copy of the 78 may well be pressed by RCA in one of their plants (likely Indianapolis).
W.B.lbl ● 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Various Artists - When The Saints Go Marching In / Jam Session Blues (1954)	I have a copy, and can attest the label die-cut size is 76.5mm, with an 8.9mm label hole.
W.B.lbl ● 30th Apr 2024		78 RPM Frankie Laine - Doris Day (1952)	Check my sets of images for what 78 RPM Columbia labels' colors should look like. On others' images, there's very much a discrepancy between the actual color and how it appeared in the photo / scan.
W.B.lbl ● 16th Apr 2024		78 RPM Gene Autry - Blue Shadows On The Trail / A Boy From Texas (1948)	{Images #3541055 & 3541056} looks like one of the last Kings Mills, OH pressings before that plant shut down.
W.B.lbl ● 11th Apr 2024		78 RPM Dick Robertson - Twenty-One Years (Is A Long Time) / Mary And Mother (1931)	Apparently, the Hollywood plant operated as early as 1928-29. But it also seems they simply added the 'H' within the 'scroll' label on the template / slug meant originally for Oakland. They had quite a few of those 68.5mm labels (with 63 / 63.25mm ring) between 1931 and 1933.
W.B.lbl ● 9th Apr 2024		78 RPM Kostya Poliansky And His Balalaika Orchestra - Espan / Pas D'Espan (1951)	Also issued on 45 RPM where the matrix prefix was E1-CX-.

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