[78-L] Blue wax Columbia date??
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Jun 15 10:57:17 PDT 2009
Blue Wax Brunswicks and Vocalions were a West Coast phenomenon, no? There are
also lots of bluish transcriptions pressed by Allied, and MGM's playbacks
sometimes were on dark blue shellac as late as 1941.
dl
Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> So, it has been proven that the Blue Wax Columbias were not just a West
> Coast phenomenon? And that they were also pressed on the East Coast?
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> David Weiner wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>
>>>> Blue Wax pressings were made from 1932 to 1934, right?
>>>>
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>>> On the East and West Coast, through most of 1936. The highest East Coast
>>> blue pressing I have is 3125-D, recorded in April 1936. The highest West
>>> Coast blue pressing I have is 3134-D, recorded in May 1936.
>>>
>>> Dave Weiner
>>>
>>>
>> Right..I even HAVE the 1935 catalog, titled "Blue Wax Catalog", and forgot how
>> late these things went. There are several acousticals still listed in it, and
>> presumably they'd sold well enough to be in print that late and exist as BW.
>>
>> dl
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