[78-L] Blue wax Vocalion?

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>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.
>
MacGregor (& whomever) was using the Allied pressing facility...which had
been Columbia's "west coast" plant until the label ended in 1934. It is very
possible that the plant still had some "leftover" blue blanks?! I also 
wonder
how/why the blue-grey MacGregors came about (see below)?!
> 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.
>
Okehs, of course, were pressed by Columbia from 1926 (IIRC) onward...so
it would be very possible for them to be pressed on blue blanks (either by
accident, or intentionally by someone operating the pressing machine?!)

However, Columbia disappeared as a company in mid-1934...which makes
your question "Did ARC ever source pressings from Allied?"

Oh...I also have a "green wax" NYRL disc (forget which label). I had read
that they experimented with selling green Irish records (mine was one!).

Steven C. Barr