[78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?

[Royal Pemberton]

I'd guess upper reaches of the 2600s.  I have:
2628-D--Ben Selvin, recorded February 1932; blue wax with black labels;
2687-D--Art Kassel, recorded 27 June 1932; blue wax/blue labels;
2690-D--Enric Madriguera, recorded 27 July 1932; blue wax/blue labels;
2927-D--Benny Goodman, recorded 13 May 1934; blue wax/blue labels;
2948-D--Phil Regan, recorded 7th August 1934; blue wax/blue labels
(matrix numbers CO.15541 and 15542, the lowest of the ARC Columbia
series);
3079-D--Red Norvo, recorded 25 January 1935; black wax/blue labels*;
3114-D--Henry Hall (recorded in England for Columbia 13 November 1935,
UK mx CA.15445-1, dubbed to CO.18559-1)//Lew Stone (recorded in
England for Regal Zonophone 21 October 1935, UK mx CAR.3680-1, dubbed
to CO.18560-1), dubbings made 23 January 1936; blue wax and blue
labels.

* This record has the 1933-1936 style capitalised Columbia blue
labels.  In NOTE THE NOTES a copy of 3079-D with the 1936-c.1938
COLUMBIA (all caps) is shown.

I have a couple of black wax/blue label Masterworks items with the
'Label copyright 1937 by Columbia Phonograph Co.' legend:

4217-M--Don Cossacks Choir/Serge Jaroff, pressed from (German?)
matrices CR.636 and CR.637;
9115-M--Dora Labbette, pressed from UK matrices CAX.6287 and CAX.6288.

I don't know when 4217-M was recorded; I can only narrow 9115-M to 1932.

On 3/18/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
> If one were to guess...would the first original issue blue waxers be in the
> 2600D series or 2700D?  I recall my Joe Haymes of Old Man of the Mountain is
> a 2700 and it is all black.  Or is that another function of the different
> pressing plants following different paths?
>
> I am pleased that Royal is answering my questions about "Royal Blue"
> records...that seems very appropriate!
>
> Taylor B
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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>> It's hard to say.  Likely depends on the pressing plants rather like
>> how it was when they abandoned the blue discs and went back to black.
>> There may even be some records whose initial appearance was on blue
>> discs but whose label stocks were printed on some of the last of the
>> black labels.
>>
>> On 3/18/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>>> This info may be somewhere on the net,  but can anyone tell me for
>>> certain
>>> what is the earliest  Columbia popular issue which was originally issued
>>> on
>>> Blue Wax?  I don't mean reissues of old Ted Lewis,  etc.  but the first
>>> original Blue Wax.
>>>
>>> Thanks from
>>>
>>> Taylor B
>>>
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