[78-L] Victor's Sunrise label

[David Lennick]

FOUND ONE! 4, actually..don't count the top one, which is a postwar jazz and 
blues label. The bottom two are Victor products (no idea who put out the second 
one).

http://recordlabl5.blogspot.com/2008/10/sunrise.html

Here's the source:
http://78rpmrecordlabels.blogspot.com/2008/08/78rpm-picture-sleeves-and-picture.html

dl


Gregg Kimball wrote:
> There's a color image of the label in Docks's price guide.  If you don't 
> have Docks and one doesn't turn up online, I could digitize mine and send 
> you an image.
> 
> Gregg
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Harold Aherne" <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> To: <78-L at 78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 3:29 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Victor's Sunrise label
> 
> 
> Of all the short-lived Victor labels of the early 30s, this is the one I've 
> never
> come across. Very occasionally there will be a Timely Tunes, Electradisk, or 
> their
> Canadian equivalent Aurora offered on Ebay, but I've never seen a Sunrise 
> disc and
> don't really know what the label looks like. I know there's a description of 
> it in Rust's
> record label book; is there any example online?
> 
> Unlike Timely Tunes or Electradisk, there don't appear to have been any
> unique masters on Sunrise, though the possibility of alternate takes exists, 
> as I
> suppose it always does. So why did Victor create this label when their 
> standard black
> label sales were mediocre and they already had Bluebird?
> 
> -Harold
>