78 RPM - Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol - Who Blew Out The Flame? / The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish - Vocalion - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol
Label:	Vocalion
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	v4383
Date:	Oct 1938
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	2 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol	Who Blew Out The Flame?	Parish, Fain	Rate
B	Dolly Dawn And Her Dawn Patrol	The Girl Friend Of The Whirling Dervish	Dubin, Mercer, Warren	Rate

Notes

B: From "Garden Of The Moon"

A side (mx. M 901-1) recorded New York, NY, September 8, 1938.
B side (mx. M 903-1) recorded New York, NY, September 8, 1938.

Both sides also released on Conqueror 9137.

Columbia Daily Spectator, October 18, 1938, page 2: Off The Records.

Images

Number: 680309

THUMBNAIL
Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS
Description: Vocalion v4383 A side label (Bridgeport pressing)

Number: 680310

Uploaded By: LaurenceD SUBS
Description: Vocalion v4383 B side label (Bridgeport pressing)

Number: 2601933

Uploaded By: xiphophilos
Description: Vocalion v4383 A side label (Hollywood pressing)

Number: 2601934

Uploaded By: xiphophilos
Description: Vocalion v4383 B side label (Hollywood pressing)

Comments and Reviews


W.B.lbl 16th Nov 2021		Oh, I'm okay. But as they say . . .



fixbutte 16th Nov 2021		W.B.lbl: your last sentence sounds serious. I hope you are all right.



W.B.lbl 16th Nov 2021		By 1937, Brunswick and Vocalion product was under the aegis of the American Record Corporation. The East Coast pressing facility was the once-and-future Columbia plant in Bridgeport, CT, whose fonts are on {Images #680309 & 680310}; West Coast pressings were done in the same Romaine Street facility in Hollywood where ARC had studios as the time (designated LA #### on matrix numbers), and which fonts (from a printer unknown to yours truly at this time) are seen on {Images #2601933 & 2601934}. That plant would be superseded by 1948 by another L.A. plant on Alden Avenue which would remain in operation through 1963-64. It is the Bridgeports which have the language of Brunswick manufacturing and Master producing. If I were out for this one, the Bridgeport I'd get. Unfortunately, I am now in a place that is a de facto closet to the point where I may have to divest of all but a few "distinct" 78's.



xiphophilos 16th Nov 2021		W.B.lbl let me privately know, "If based on type - {Images #680309 & 680310} is Bridgeport, {Images #2601933 & 2601934} is Hollywood." I had forgotten that in December 1931 the American Record Corporation (ARC) had licensed the rights to the Brunswick and Vocalion labels from Warner Bros. In 1934, ARC also acquired the Columbia Phonograph Company, Inc., including its Bridgeport pressing plant. At the same time, it began to use that Bridgeport plant for its more expensive labels (Brunswick, Vocalion, Columbia, Liberty Music Shops, et al.), while continuing to press its budget labels (Romeo, Banner, Oriole, Melotone, etc.) at the old Scranton Button Company plant in Scranton, PA. (source) These Hollywood pressings seem a lot more rare. The only other Vocalion examples I've been able to find in our database are Vocalion 4582 and Vocalion 05511 (a weird mix of serif fonts on A and non-serif fonts on B).



xiphophilos 13th Nov 2021		As I thought, the differences must have something to do with different pressing plants, based on an article by Brian Boyd I just found at https://www.capsnews.org/apn1992-2.htm. Brunswick originally pressed its records only on the East Coast, first in Long Island City, NY; then also in Jersey City, NJ. In the early 1920 it briefly leased the old Auburn Button Works plant in Auburn, NY, until this plant was sold to the Scranton Button Company in November 1924. As early as 1922, however, Brunswick's also opened a plant in Muskegon, MI. (source), and in 1924, a West Coast pressing plant in Los Angeles, CA, at 2481 Porter Street (The Talking Machine World, March 1924, page 94). In the late 1920s, Brunswick pressed its records in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Around the same time, Boyd writes, "distinctive characteristics start to appear on Brunswick and Vocalion pressings sold (on the West Coast). ... For example, only West Coast Brunswick and Vocalion appear to have used the designation "Light Ray Electrical Recording" on their label during 1926-27 (a characteristic shared with Canadian Brunswick). In addition, the typeface on the labels is consistently different — not markedly so at first, but enough to catch the eye of a collector used to seeing East Coast pressings. By 1928-29, the differences are more noticeable. About the same time, two distinct varieties of East Coast labels begin to emerge - enough to confuse even the most die-hard label researcher. There are other characteristics of West Coast Brunswick and Vocalion pressings, however. For example, the type style of the catalog number in the wax is quite distinctive - a neat "typewriter" style which is raised, rather than indented, and appears close to the label. In addition, the Vocalions lack the small triangle before the catalog number in the wax, which appears on their East Coast equivalents."



xiphophilos 13th Nov 2021		Interesting. I wonder if Brunswick had different pressing plants, and maybe that's the reason for the font differences. I found my copy in the United States, so it's probably not an export issue.



han enderman 13th Nov 2021		The original issue is the one referring to Brunswick/Master. Irving Mills' Master & Variety labels existed only in 1937 and were pressed/distributed by Brunswick. After 1937, reissues and new recordings were issued on Brunswick & Vocalion. I think that the v-prefix refers to Variety as source. Neighbouring releases with v- are v-4351/4386 (Hodges), and see also Dolly Dawn's v-3933, and these show the reference to Master. These labels have the normal sanserif font used on Vocalion. The non-Br/Master label may have had a different function (export?). I remember having seen occasionally such labels with different font, but they are rare. - I see that I have this serifed round font also on label images of Voc 4408, 4475, which both were issued with the common font.



xiphophilos 12th Nov 2021		Can someone tell me which of the two label versions is earlier, the one that says, "Distributed in the U.S.A. by Brunswick Record Corp." and "Produced by Master Records, Inc" or the one where these phrases are missing? The latter version has the following runouts: A side runout: M 901 1-4 B side runout: M 903 1-3



xiphophilos 12th Mar 2021		A side: