[78-L] Odd Capitol 78

[Taylor Bowie]

Capitol started in 1942, right?    I  thought that originally it was like 
the Model T...you could get any color label so long as it was black.  When 
are the earliest purples,?

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Odd Capitol 78


> The different label colors were in place from the very beginning, with the
> purple label being the more expensive one. As with Decca, artists who sold 
> well
> could be moved onto the higher priced label. But at some point the prices 
> must
> have been leveled and the black label numbering was continued on purple 
> label
> (for a time with prefixes like 57-), with the 15000s and 10000s continued 
> as
> album numbers or special series issues.
>
> Anyone know exactly when the black label disappeared? The numbering system
> didn't, so I can't tell from chronological listings or entries in 
> Whitburn. I'd
> guess 1949.
>
> dl
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> Hi Ron,
>>
>> Thanks for your interest.  It for sure is Whiting on the one side and 
>> Clark
>> Dennis on the other.  I won't have the filing problem mentioned by dl as
>> Margaret Whiting easily trumps the light tenor of Mr. D for my taste!
>>
>> Taylor
>>
>> P.S.  Would it somehow be some sort of promotion for the switch to the 
>> new
>> purple label by the company?
>>
>> PPS:  The Whiting side is credited as being from the Welles movie The 
>> Lady
>>>From Shanghai...a memorable show but  the song didn't make any impression 
>>>on
>> me when I saw it!
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Ronald Lees" <rebc1 at comcast.net>
>> To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:06 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Odd Capitol 78
>>
>>
>>> I must have read through that to fast...plastic it is :)
>>>
>>> This definitely makes sense #485 was released at the very end of 1947 or
>>> beginning of 1948 and #15085 was released within the first few months or
>>> so
>>> of 1948. Well before the white label flex promo's you mentioned.
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
>>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:29 PM
>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Odd Capitol 78
>>>
>>> Ah, it WAS mentioned as being a plastic pressing. That's definitely a
>>> promo.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> Ronald Lees wrote:
>>>> Forgot to mention you should check the matrix numbers.
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Taylor Bowie
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 11:00 PM
>>>> To: 78-L Mail List
>>>> Subject: [78-L] Odd Capitol 78
>>>>
>>>> While finishing the long-overdue sorting of my vocal 78s,  I found
>>> something
>>>> which strikes me as a real oddball...but I don't really know much about
>>> late
>>>> 40s 78s so maybe it's not so strange after all,  but...
>>>>
>>>> It's a sort of plastic pressing thing:  Margaret Whiting doing "Please
>>> Don't
>>>> Kiss Me" on a purple label,  #15058.
>>>>
>>>> OK,  so far so good....but the other side is a BLACK label of Clark
>>>> Dennis
>>>> singing "I'll Never Say I love" you and it says #485!
>>>>
>>>> Was this some kind of hybrid thing for radio stations by any chance?
>>>> Both
>>>> the songs are from movies issued in 1948.
>>>>
>>>> I can see maybe mixing it up with an old black and a new purple  label,
>>> but
>>>> the different catalog numbers seems really  weird.
>>>>
>>>> Any info about this or other such Capitol issues would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Taylor B
>>>>
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