[78-L] question about a 78

[David Lennick]

I have one sixteen-inch lacquer cut at 78..someone may have been making test 
cuts and the radio feed came up with something he wanted to capture so he let 
it roll (a Caspar Reardon performance, possibly on a Vallee program). Green 
label Presto.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Does the label say it is a 78??  It is highly unusual for a 16-inch disc 
> to run at anything but 33.  The chip flies off the record too fast while 
> it is cut at that high speed.  George Blacker found a Columbia Royal 
> Blue test pressing of an experiment Columbia made of cutting a 16-inch 
> at 78, and I now own it.  It is the only one either of us had ever 
> seen.  The only other example we know of are the overdub sub-masters 
> that Les Paul recorded before he got his tape recorders.  Is this record 
> a pressing or a lacquer?  This record's label might have a check-off 
> place for 33 and 78 and he might have just assumed it was at 78 if 
> neither box was checked off.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> Donna Halper wrote:
>> A friend of mine from Chicago asked me about a 78 he found.  He has 
>> no equipment to play it and is just wondering what it might be, and 
>> who Gordini and Lee were.  I thought it sounded like a radio 
>> transcription.  Any ideas?
>>
>> my friend wrote:
>>   
>>> It's a 16 inch, 78 rpm record.  It is typewriten: Recorded in the 
>>> Studios of  GORDINI & LEE RADIO PRODUCTIONS , Chicago, Illinois.
>>> It also says "BIG CITY PARADE," hand written with #1 on one side, 
>>> and # 2 on the other side-- the words "Big City Parade" are on both sides.
>>>     
>> ____
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