[78-L] Victor's Sunrise label

[Malcolm Rockwell]

The second was a Gray Gull product.
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David Lennick wrote:
> 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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