[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 31 18:00:42 PST 2008
British 8-inch discs used very small labels, and of course Little Wonder had
'em even smaller (don't have figures to hand and what am I doing online on New
Year's Eve anyway?).
dl
Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 23:45 +0000, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> The first record I ever saw sporting different sized labels on each
>> side was Columbia A 2408, 'Somewhere in France is the lily' by Henry
>> Burr backed with 'Where the great red dawn is shining' by Charles
>> Harrison. 1917 record with period blue gold band labels. The
>> Harrison side has the normal size of label for the era but the Burr
>> side has a smaller label, about the size of the labels adopted in
>> 1930.
>>
>> What is the smallest size label ever used on a 10 inch or 12 inch record?
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> Smallest I've seen is just under three inches in diameter. Victor used
> that size on 12" records that ran really exceptionally long.
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