[78-L] First Blue Wax Columbia issue?

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 17:29:41 PDT 2009


I thought they all did, at least after December 1932.  The return to
black discs came at different times, as the various plants used up
their supplies of blue blanks.

On 3/19/09, Malcolm Rockwell <malcolm at 78data.com> wrote:
> Wait a minute.
> What do you mean "plants"? It's my understanding that the only plant
> producing the blue discs was the one in Los Angeles.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> 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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