[78-L] Fw: Jewel Gold Note Series (1940s label) question.

[Royal Pemberton]

That's it then.  Thanks!

On 3/13/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> That E appears on Tempo and a few other West Coast labels..I've wondered
> about
> it myself. I think I've noticed it on Allied 78s and LPs as well (they
> didn't
> make all that many..some of them on nice yellow vinyl, too).
>
> If you compare 1946-7 Capitols, ARAs, Jewels et al, you'll likely find that
> they look as if they were cut at the same facility and even have the same
> font
> for the matrix numbers. RR perfected that "swing" run-out, which you can
> even
> find on Columbias with RHCO prefixes in the early 50s. Moe Asch even had
> some
> Disc sides done by RR, the ones by the Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra
> (Rachmaninoff, Khachaturian et al) and they look like Capitol records of the
> day. Artist also used RR, I'm pretty sure, and their labels bear a
> similarity
> to Jewel's.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> Hmmmmm....I understand typical practice in the 1940s was to record
>> sessions on 16" lacquers and dub the 'keepers' to 78 lacquers.  I
>> haven't seen a Capitol 78 that looked, as it were, like a Decca record
>> of the day.  So it would seem to me, no matter where a session cut
>> onto 16" discs was done, they always used the same transfer facility
>> for making the 78 lacquers.  Wasn't that the MacGregor studio, or
>> somewhere else?  (I have a couple of Black & White 78s, the first two
>> 12" discs of their 'Junior Jazz' series, which appear to have been
>> mastered at the same location used for this Jewel disc.  One of the
>> sides has in its dead wax the letter E in a small diamond, about 2/3
>> the size of the diamond VE stamp on 1930s Victors.  Would this mean
>> Electro-Vox?)
>>
>> On 3/13/09, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Uhhh...that was one irrefutable fact. There wuz only one L in Jewel.
>>> Who knew"
>>>
>>> Al S.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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>>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 10:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jewel Gold Note Series (1940s label) question.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yeah..but there were two ll's in Jewell.
>>>>
>>>> Also..we all remember the wonderful clarinet lead of Willie Schwartz in
>>>> the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Well Willie was in the reed section of that
>>>> Raeburn band for the 1946 "Duck Waddle"
>>>> Two more stranger than fiction facts from Simmons' Almanac.
>>>>
>>>> Al S.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:19 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jewel Gold Note Series (1940s label) question.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Jewel was Ben Pollack's label, wasn't it? Probably cut by Radio
>>>>> Recorders.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>>>>>> I also have this record and Duck Waddle side happens to be the example
>>>>>> I
>>>>>>
>>>>>> show on my website.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.majesticrecord.com/labelsj.htm
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Glenn
>>>>> snip<
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