[78-L] A strange Brunswick...

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 07:01 PM 5/28/2009, you wrote:
>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.

Still a very nice find!!!! If I had found that record it would have 
been a keeper.

Right now I'm still cleaning, sleeving & playing those seventy 10" 78 
rpm educational records that I got in a box a few days ago. Some of 
the classical on RCA Victor is pretty good & will be played again one 
day. The rest will get played once then added to my huge 
accumulation. I'm surprised that they are in fairly good shape & not 
badly worn from elementary school use. I guess only the teacher 
played them & that she took good care of them. They came without 
sleeves or binders & without any printed material that might have 
gone with them. I didn't expect to get them (as I've never seen any 
before) however I'll hang onto them even though they might be 
worthless or a very low dollar amount on the collector market per record.

Free records? Sure, I'll take them anytime.....

>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
> >> >
> >