[78-L] The world is waiting for the Sunrise
Harold Aherne
leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 27 14:00:07 PST 2008
Thanks! I figured one would turn up somewhere...I think I've read that the second
label is from Grey Gull, and its typescript does resemble GG's other labels. The song
(and the
--- On Sat, 12/27/08, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor's Sunrise label
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 3:42 PM
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
>
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