[78-L] Rubbish Quality Records (was Major Records Sound Effects 78's)

[David Lennick]

agp wrote:
> At 04:22 01/02/2009, David Lennick  wrote:
>> Some people have been known to think highly of Major's discs. Most 
>> of the ones
>> I've encountered have been pressed on reground Grey Gull material or worse,
>> although eventually they put the stuff out on good vinyl.
> 
> 
> This got me to thinking about labels whose pressings were absolute 
> crap. You know the type: noisy pressings that sound like roofing 
> shingles being played with rusty nails. How about a list of those?
> 
> Tony 
> 

Pretty much every budget label from ARC in the 30s..these were deliberately 
pressed on crap so the jukebox operators would have to keep reordering. Yes I 
know they used the same stuff on a lot of the full price issues as well, right 
up through Gold Label Brunswick, till they had to upgrade to Columbia laminated 
material or be excluded from the Carnegie Collections.

And as Roger Wade has just pointed out, Musicrap er Musicraft. Ditto Majestic. 
Decca's 18000 series Black Label was horrible, but the top-priced 40000s were 
even worse till they began pressing those on Deccalite.

dl