[78-L] The world is waiting for the Sunrise

Harold Aherne leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 27 14:00:10 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 movie it came from 
 

--- 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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