[78-L] V-Disc - Vinyls/Shellacs.

[David Weiner]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Lennick
<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> To my knowledge, the only shellac V-Discs were the ones pressed by
>> Columbia.
>> Dumb decision, unless they just didn't have enough vinyl available..they
>> certainly had it for transcriptions. Victor and Clark pressed on vinyl.
>>
>> dl
>>
> 
>  Were the Columbia shellac discs laminated pressings?
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Yes. They MAY have done some vinyls..I know I have a couple that have
Columbia 
matrix numbers, like Earl Wrightson's "Rodger Young", but most Columbia 
cuttings are their usual laminated shellac. A couple of years ago I bought a

huge load of VDs from someone who'd saved them, mint, since 1945, and he
packed 
them badly..all the ones that broke were Columbias.

dl

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I have a number of Columbia-pressed V-Disc vinyls, including one of Benny
Goodman #55 which is so thin as to be nearly Dynaflex!  But Columbia did
press mostly shellac V-Discs - the copy of "Rodger Young" by Earl Wrightson
that I have is a single-sided unnumbered copy on shellac.  I have
Columbia-pressed shellacs on all three series - Army, Navy & Marine Corps.
In several cases, I've got a shellac and vinyl copy of the same record, both
done by Columbia. 

Dave W.