[78-L] New Lead-ins and outs (was: label Info.)

[Michael Biel]

From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> Columbia's usual problem was that their 78 masters (Columbia and Okeh)
> were too large to fit on their later (1939-onward) 78's, necessitating
> dubbed sides on reissues! As well, (RCA) Victor dubbed virtually ALL
> their reissues of 78rpm material...apparently to allow the inclusion
> of run-in and run-out grooving amenable to "record changers!"

I hate to see "folklore" like this being posted on 78-L over and over
and over, because it just is not true.  Repeating it over and over and
over (perhaps because you forgot you have posted it already) will not
make it any more true than it wasn't the first time you passed this
falsehood on.  There are many 20s and early 30s original master Columbia
and OKeh's on later Columbia pressings, and likewise there are many,
many, many early original master Victors -- even operatic ACOUSTICALS --
on 1940s and 1950s RCA Victor pressings.  How else do you think Graham
Newton did the red vinyl Heritage Series in the post war 40s?  I've got
15-1001 sitting right in front of me and you can even see part of the
handwritten info that extended outside of the smaller label area of this
issue.  It has "run-in and run-out grooving amenable to 'record
changers'", and evidence where the original release number was shaved
off or filled in on the master.  Lead-ins and lead-outs were routinely
grafted onto early masters over and over and over and over, etc.  The
records exist.  STOP FEEDING US THIS FOLKLORE that can be easily refuted
by the actual records. I know better, and Lennick knows better, but you
are misleading the newbie who asked the question.  YOU ARE JUST PLAIN
WRONG.   

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> And Columbia added new run-out grooves over top of the old ones on
> brand new issues if they didn't think the groove ended close enough
> to the label.  Look at all those late 30s (into 1940 I think) LA recordings.
>
> The reverse stop-groove situation happens on German pressings of US
> Deccas in the 30s (maybe on Brunswicks as well) where they added a
> deep non-concentric "you vill stop" groove cutting through the original.
>
> I've seen evidence that run-out grooves were not cut in the original 
> masters. Some Brunswick pressings of Polydor masters have no run-out
> while the Polydors do, and I have two similar-era pressings of a
> Raymond Scott disc that appear to be from the same master but have
> different run-outs and no evidence of one being filled in.   dl
>
> Charles Bihun wrote:
>> Thanks for the heads up.  ChuckB
>>
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>> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 3:32:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] label Info.
>>
>> From: Charles Bihun <csintala79 at yahoo.com>
>>> I pretty much have the technical facts down. I was told how
>>> to tell if a reissue of a record from the 20s was from a
>>> master or dubbed (the masters won't cut lead in grooves,
>>> while a dubbed record will have them). ChuckB
>>
>> Don't be so quick. Unless you know that a specific reissue label does
>> not add lead-in grooves, this is not a good indication. Most reissues
>> in the late 30s and 1940s I know that used original masters, added
>> lead-in grooves and often cut their new lead-out groove style right over
>> the original lead-outs, sometimes making a rather confusing mess! While
>> the lack of a lead-in is a dead give-away, I usually pay attention to
>> the lead-out area.
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com