[78-L] A strange Brunswick...

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 05:38 PM 5/28/2009, you wrote:
>Not on a commercial issue.  Jukeboxes for discs were in their infancy in 1933.
>
>I do have a 10" Victor record made in 1929 to promote a Pathe picture
>called MOTHER'S BOY that starred Morton Downey, and the same recording
>and special label is on both sides of the disc.  Here's a link to both
>a pic of the label and a dub of the recording itself:
>http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=266


I'm listening to it now & it sounds interesting. Hopefully it had 
less surface noise when the record was played in a theater before 
whatever movies were being shown that day.

>On 5/28/09, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
> > While looking through my "shellac archive" and trying to list my holdings,
> > I ran across this...?!
> >
> > It's a copy of Brunswick 6527...a Duke Ellington disc; HOWEVER,
> > this one has the SAME "side" on both physical sides of the record!
> > Both sides are "Drop Me Off At Harlem"...B13081A! I haven't
> > yet verified this duplication by playing it...but both have the same
> > matrix in the "wax," and other visible items are duplicated as well!
> >
> > Anybody have any idea why/how such a disc was pressed? It seems
> > too early for jukebox use?! Also, there is nothing non-standard about
> > or on the labels?!
> >
> > It seems to me to be unlikely to be pressed thusly in error...although
> > it could have been some sort of test item...?! Has anyone out there
> > in Radio-land run across a similar record of that vintage?!
> >
> > ...stevenc
> >