[78-L] Scroll label

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 27 19:49:36 PST 2009


Taylor Bowie wrote:
> A record seller I once visited in San Francisco had a really strange and 
> screwed-up reissue of the Whiteman/Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue.  It was on a 
> 12" black and silver ca. 1942 Victor,  but....the first side was electric 
> and the flip side was from the earlier acoustic version!  Wish I'd bought 
> it...it was strange.
> 
> Taylor B

How many copies you want? For years I thought that had occurred only on 
Canadian pressings but it affected at least one US press run as well. Every 
Canadian pressing of 35822 from about 1942 till it was recut (here) for the 
"RCA" label has an acoustical side 2. The odd thing is that it must have been a 
restoration to the catalog, because I have never run across a 1930s Canadian 
issue of the Rhapsody. (I was right..neither American in Paris nor Rhapsody in 
Blue is in the 1941 Canadian Victor catalogue.)

Meanwhile, back to our original question.

dl
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:29 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Scroll label
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>> Is there such a thing as an acoustical with a Scroll label? It would have 
>> to be
>> something that was kept in print from before 1926, not a reissue, since
>> acoustical reissues used Batwing labels and a distinctive run-out groove. 
>> And
>> the 1930 Victor catalog still shows many acousticals with their original
>> catalog numbers (Fritz Kreisler, for example)..did these retain Batwing 
>> labels
>> after 1926?
>>
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