[78-L] Scroll label

[David Lennick]

We had that record from the time I was born and I didn't even know there was 
anything unusual about it till I became a serious collector. Most people 
wouldn't have noticed the difference..in 1942 it was "an old record" and that's 
what it sounded like. What I DID notice was that the 1951 pressing (which my 
dad happened to get in the late 50s) sounded much better, and I guess I thought 
they'd done some nice work in transferring it to a new master.

It would be interesting to know how long that mule was in print in the US.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Hmm...so much for the rarity angle!  I don't want to stray even more off 
> topic,  but...why did they leave it in the catalog like that?  Didn't anyone 
> notice or complain?
> 
> As to DL's original question,  I also seem to recall a Mark Andrews acoustic 
> reprinted on a scroll...at least I think it was acoustic and I know it was a 
> scroll.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Scroll label
> 
> 
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:29 PM
>>> Subject: [78-L] Scroll label
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> dl
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