78 RPM - Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys - Jambalaya (On The Bayou) / Window Shopping - MGM - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
Label:	MGM
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	11283
Date:	Jul 1952
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	33 Own, 2 Want
Price Guide:	$25
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PRICE GUIDE

$25

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys	Jambalaya (On The Bayou)	Williams	10.0 Rate
B	Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys	Window Shopping	Joseph	10.0 Rate

Notes

BB - July 19, 1952 (Folk Record Releases), July 26, 1952 (advert)

Also issued on 45 RPM as K11283

Images

Number: 411582 THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: leonard ● Description: A side (label typesetting by Pace Press, NYC - pressed by MGM's Bloomfield, NJ plant)	Number: 411583 Uploaded By: leonard ● Description: B side (label typesetting by Pace Press, NYC - pressed by MGM's Bloomfield, NJ plant)	Number: 445254 Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: alt A side (no ®)	Number: 445255 Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS Description: alt B side (no ®)
Number: 3492145 Uploaded By: 78-Ron Description: a	Number: 3492146 Uploaded By: 78-Ron Description: b

Comments and Reviews


78-Ron 14th Feb 2024		DJ-copies added



BigBadBluesMan 17th May 2015



BigBadBluesMan 17th May 2015



Whyperion SUBS 12th Feb 2013		Thanks , makes sense with the BBC radio / TV features on the birth of the LP, which mentioned vynlyite (Union Carbide Trade Mark ) http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/629579/Vinylite Britannica tells us this was in 1930, I guess that RCA's use of this was determined by cost , Shellac was cheap (?) , comparatively, at least until US entered WW2 and the import of the raw materials for Shellac was restricted accross the Pacific ( so how come in UK enough Shellac remained for domestic usage - or did the high taxes mean actual disc sales in UK were relatively low ?



josefritz 12th Feb 2013		Here's a bit more on plastics: http://tenwatts.blogspot.com/2012/10/plastic-precursors.html FYI: Solid shellac is more fragile than glass by any heuristic measure. Metrolite, deccalite etc were vinyl. Polystyrene existed in that era but wasn't durable enough for the heavy tone arms of that era. They are more rigid because they used less plasticizers in the formula. The formulas wasn't particularly proprietary since none of them invented any plastics- ever. however, the brand names metrolite et al were trade marked. Vinyl 78s debuted in the last 1940s originally for radio servicing because the audio was superior, but as electric record players became more popular, particularly because of lighter tracking, they began marketing vinyl (PVC) 78s. This makes sense because vinyl was already in use before the debut of 45s and LPs. The new technology there was finding ways to press grooves closer together.



Whyperion SUBS 26th Jan 2013		http://tenwatts.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/metrolite-deccalite-merco-plastic-and.html



mojofilter 22nd Jan 2013		I think that's just a kind of "ad copy" - Metrolite was a proprietary formula that may have been a bit less prone to breakage than shellac, but it was still as breakable as any other records. It wasn't vinyl. Shellac was also non-breakable under normal use... it's why our 78s are still intact after up to a hundred years or more!



zabadak 22nd Jan 2013		"Non-Breakable" => vinyl?