[78-L] A strange Brunswick...

[Royal Pemberton]

With the limited top end of much of the equipment they had then, it
probably wasn't so noticeable.  Both sides of the record sound like
that.

On 5/29/09, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>
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