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

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> And Columbia DID dub all its reissues from about 1948 on.  dl
> That also has nothing to do with Steve's contention that Columbia's
> dubbing was done a decade earlier to all of their older masters because
> of the smaller size pressings that Columbia was using in the late-30s.
> The pressings did not get any smaller in 1948 than they had been in
> 1939, so the size of the masters was not the reason for the 1948 change.
> By 1948 perhaps ALL Columbia 78s were dubs, and many of them had been
> so since the early 40s.
> There are exceptions, of course, but Steve was saying that ALL or
> Virtually all the reissues were dubbed for THAT reason -- size or
> lead-outs.  But there had been occasional -- very few -- examples even
> back to the acoustical era where a master had to be dubbed because of a
> mistake that had been made in the recording in the size of the master.
> But it was not a problem with EVERY master as Steve seems to be trying
> to convince us of.
>
Wherinell did I say "Every?!" I was specifically speaking of (and I may not
have made this TOTALLY clear, thus giving Mr. Biel an opportunity for
another "cheap shot...?!) of the early-forties red-label reissues of earlier
recordings they owned! While master pressings were usually used, there
were a few cases where the original Columbia/Okeh matrix was slightly
oversize for the red-label-era reissue! In such cases, the side was dubbed
(with the dub receiving a then-current "master number") and that appeared
on the reissue 78's!

Steven C. Barr