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78 RPM Record

Artist: Ted Wallerstein Label:   Columbia Country: USA Catalogue: Date: 1947 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Ted Wallerstein	[none]		Rate

Notes

Inscribed in dead wax:
"Columbia Recording Corporation"
"Hollywood"
"Ground Breaking Ceremonies"
"March 1947"

Written on label (perhaps printed with label):
"To Ray In Celebration Ted Wallerstein"

B Side of this record has no playing surface. It has embossed "Columbia Recording Corporation" above large embossed Columbia "music note" logo and large embossed CBS/microphone logo. Below this are the words "Trade Mark" and "New York . Bridgeport . Chicago . Hollywood", all embossed.

Note this is a ten inch 78 but pressed on flexible "LP" vinyl. The playing surface is "microgroove", covering about one and a quarter inches of the surface only (dead wax is a couple of inches).

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Number: 417393  THUMBNAIL Uploaded By: mickey rat Description: A Side Label

Comments and Reviews

W.B.lbl 5th Feb 2023		This was also just prior to the Columbia Recording Corporation changing its name to Columbia Records, Inc.
ilbman 21st Nov 2019		I own a record just like this one except its presented to Howard Bredlow In Celebration Ted Wallerstein. Howard Bredlow was an exec for Columbia's local distributor.
W.B.lbl 21st Nov 2014		P.S. This newer Hollywood plant replaced an earlier plant in town, at 6626 Romaine Street (zip 90038 in post-1963 vernacular) that had been in operation since ARC (American Record Corporation) days in 1935.
W.B.lbl 24th Jan 2013		Probably a Columbia employee of the time.
mickey rat 24th Jan 2013		Forgot to ask. Any idea who Ray might have been?
mickey rat 24th Jan 2013		Thanks W.B. Interesting information. I knew you'd be on it.
W.B.lbl 23rd Jan 2013		This was very likely in reference to ground-breaking ceremonies for their West Coast pressing plant at 8723 Alden Drive in Los Angeles (zip code 90048) that would open in 1948. Except for a year's period (1949-50) when it was closed due to a sales slump that was exacerbated by the "Battle of the Speeds," the plant remained in operation through 1964 when it was supplanted by an even newer plant in Santa Maria, CA that itself would last until 1981. This earlier plant, of course, had an "H" either machine-stamped (serif font) or hand-etched on the deadwax of many of the records pressed there, and mostly used Bert-Co typesetting (though a few here and there used labels shipped from their Bridgeport, CT plant). It wasn't until about 1951 when LP's and 45's started being pressed there. A wing of Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Cedars Sinai Genomics Core) now stands where once millions of records were pressed for the West Coast market. And the name would be "Ray" to whom that disc was addressed.
mickey rat 23rd Jan 2013		An odd one this, and possibly historically significant. Edward "Ted" Wallerstein was president of Columbia/CBS in the 1940s and early '50s and was the man who almost single-handedly brought the LP record to the world in 1948 after bullying Columbia staff and technicians into developing the new format. I have no way of playing this record but quick samples at 45rpm confirm it is a speech and probably only one person involved. I'm wondering if the "Ground Breaking Ceremonies" were an in-house celebration of some breakthrough in the LP project...

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