[78-L] Blue wax Vocalion?

[Taylor Bowie]

I have a few Brunswicks from 1936 which are sort of a blue-grey color...not 
the "true blue" like the Columbias but for sure not black either.  Many of 
the MacGregor 10" records of 1935-37 are blue like the Columbias.

I have a 1935 Joe Venuti Orch restamp from a 1928 Okeh which is that same 
blue-grey shade.

I have seen some blue wax Okehs,  also I recall biding on an ethnic Okeh one 
time which was green...didn't win it.  I recall that it was Irish music, 
which would make sense.

Taylor B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Wright" <bryan at claxtonola.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 8:08 AM
Subject: [78-L] Blue wax Vocalion?


> I'm sorry for yet another blue wax thread. A couple months ago I
> picked up a copy of Mildred Bailey singing "When Day Is Done" on
> Vocalion 3057 (rec. 09/20/1935). It has that nice black and gold
> Vocalion scroll label, but the record is pressed in smooth laminated
> blue wax. It's the first blue wax Vocalion I've ever turned up. I'm
> guessing they aren't common. This has me wondering now if any blue wax
> Brunswicks have ever surfaced since Vocalion and Brunswick were under
> the ARC umbrella along with Columbia by late 1935. Come to think of
> it, are there any blue wax OKehs? Until finding this particular
> Vocalion example, I had only ever seen blue wax Columbias.
>
> Bryan W.
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