[78-L] Signatures on Columbia banner records

[I. Cubillo]

Yes, yes, not specally scarce records.  Only this is my idea of a valuable
(although easy to find, and cheap) record.

I must be a bit of an odd fellow... the 78s I consider valuable are not
rarities at all, and many of them can be easily obtainable in it's original
form, or transferred to CD through any of the myriad of CD reissues in the
market.

I consider valuable some 78s I like most (many of them absolutely standard
Deccas by Bing, Victors or Columbias by Ellington, etc. etc.) and generally
they've costed no more than $3.

I also consider valuable some records made by personalities I consider as
musical geniuses, or people with which I feel a special connection.

Generally speaking, the 78s more priced aren't from my field of tastes... I
have kept down in my basement lots of 78s which I suspect would reach higher
prices in auctions, etc., being played by famous people, or being rarities,
etc.








Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Signatures on Columbia banner records


> Those Casals records aren't hard to find at all..I've run across them for
> years. Weber and Fields also signed their records. I think Felix
Weingartner
> signed some as well..probably Josef Hofmann..has anyone ever noted how
many
> signed waxes there are? The practice wasn't confined to Banner Label
discs.
>
> The last side of Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes is also signed (Telefunken).
That
> meant they couldn't add a run-out when they re-pressed it in automatic
sequence.
>
> dl
>
> Glenn Longwell wrote:
> > Since you brought this up I've been wondering about this for a while.
What is the significance of these banner records from Columbia that were
signed in the wax?  Were they a particular date range? Promotion?  I passed
up several of these over the weekend - from the same place that netted me
the Trillblow records among a number of other goodies.  I think I even have
one of the Casals.
> >
> > Glenn
> >
> > --- On Mon, 6/15/09, I. Cubillo <i.cubillo at telefonica.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Another Holys... the Casals NY Columbias recorded in the early teens,
that
> > were signed in the wax.
> >
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