[78-L] Victor's Sunrise label

[Peter Fraissinet]

Amazingly, I have picked up three in the past 20 years:
Sunrise S-3127 Carter Family : When The World's On Fire / Keep On The Sunny 
Side
Sunrise S-3170 Jimmie Rodgers : My Time Ain't Long / You And My Old Guitar
Sunrise S-3265 Carter Family : Picture On The Wall / Amber Tresses
I can't remember which are which, but both orange-red and black labels are 
represented.
I remember someone writing somewhere that they wondered whether all these 
Sunrises were actually issued, since so few seem to have come to 
light...certainly the Carter Family and Rodgers discs were among the most 
common?

Of the (Grey Gull) Sunrise label, I also have three exemplars:
Sunrise 33038 Ben Burd & Bill White [=Bob Miller & Barney Burnett] : Little 
Red Caboose
      b/w Ed Merrill [=J. Fitts] : Never Gwine To Ramble No More
Sunrise 33039 Francis Crowell [=Frank Luther] : The Farm Relief Song
      b/w Ben Burd & Bill White, Bill [Bob Miller & Barney Burnett] : The 
Farmer's Letter To The President
Sunrise 33046 Village Dance Trio [=Joseph Samuels & Larry Briers] : Turkey 
In The Straw / Old Time Jigs And Reels

Since these labels are so scarce, I thought this rundown might interest 
some of you.

Peter Fraissinet
West Danby NY

At 07:39 PM 12/28/2008, you wrote:
>I have one Sunrise - in fact, I got it from an old Docks auction in the
>1980s. The label is a little bit damaged, but still quite suitable for my
>purposes. It's S-3364: "Who Wouldn't Be Lonely" by the Lone Star Cowboys 
>b/w  Tumble
>Down Shack in My Dreams by the Girls of the Golden West.
>
>Cary Ginell
>
>
>In a message dated 12/27/2008 1:41:37 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>
>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-pictur
>e.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