[78-L] Got too much money kicking around? Lookee here..

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <soundthink at aol.com>
>> You don't even need to play it. Vocalions had the master and take 
>> information on the run-off groove.
>> Cary Ginell
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> I did hear a while back something about Robert Johnson labels being 
>> affixed
>> to some inconsequential Vocalion of the era.  Of course that would only 
>> work
>> if you never played the thing to learn that it was actually by Ray Beagle
>> and his Hounds of Music or maybe Tommy Tucker.
>> When things (any things) get to be valuable enough,  there will be someone
>> out there who will attempt to counterfeit said things.
>>
> Fortunately (for RJ collectors, anyway...?!) no one is currently pressing
> shellac discs these days (if they were, I'd cut a blues record...!). It 
> MIGHT
> be possible to affix a colour photocopy of an RJ label tightly enough to
> LOOK authentic...but considering that 78 labels were affixed as a part
> of the pressing process, I would doubt that...?!
> 
> Now, if they were selling for$2,000,000.00...?!
> 
> ...stevenc 
> 
Well, paste-over labels weren't unknown even then..sometimes two labels were 
grabbed and inserted in the press, sometimes a paste-over was added where the 
wrong label had appeared (or in one notable instance, when someone protested 
and Capitol had to change the title of a song they'd already recorded and 
pressed). So a good quality laser-printed scan of an original label could be 
affixed to a junk disc. I think we can be pretty well assured that this item is 
the real deal, coming from the late Mike Stewart's collection.

I once "liberated" a beat-up lacquer disc from a pile of unaccessioned junk in 
an archive because it had a label promising a Lenny Bruce recording that I knew 
wasn't on any of his LPs..what I didn't know was that the label had come from 
the National Lampoon. My liberation was for naught.

dl