[78-L] Blue wax vs. "plastic"?

[Michael Biel]

I have a couple of pressings like this, but the one I remember has no
labels and has Columbia-style matrix numbering and the turquoise plastic
seems almost like styrene.  I had figured it was post-war
experimentation, and wouldn't there be a possibility that your McGregor
was a post war re-pressing?  During the laminated years, Allied
continued to use the small-diameter ring in the label area that denotes
its Columbia heritage (Allied was the Hollywood Columbia pressing plant
that had been bought by the employees when Columbia was going to close
it.)  My label-less pressing has the stamper-mounting ring near the rim
of the label area like later Columbia pressings.  Is that the same with
your McGregor?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


-------- Original Message --------
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>

How about this? One of my fave McGregors is #1491/2 Paul Pendarvis Orch.

"No Other One" b/w "Isn't This A Lovely Day."

Great sweet band sides, amazing hi-fi sound, and...it's pressed on a
sort 
of light-weight turquoise plastic material...not laminated. It weighs
very 
little and is slightly flexible.

Anyone have any others like this? It must be from '35 given the tunes.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malcolm Rockwell" <malcolm at 78data.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Blue wax Columbia date??


> Yes. Blue discs appear on MacGregor, the 10" records anyhow.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> 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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