[78-L] Acoustical blue wax Hawaiian

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Han Enderman" <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Ebay 380155211495 shows Co A-1935 by Ferera & Franchini,
> orig. issued 1916 with a Magic Notes label, and
> repressed ca. 1918-1920 with the blue gold-band label,
> but here with the later black Columbia label on a blue wax pressing.
> Rather uncommon, especially for an acoustical recording.
>
Columbia continued to press records in their catalog as long as customers
bought them; they didn't have (AFAIK) a program like Victor's, whereby
acoustic records were remade electrically if they were still in demand. 
These
later pressings used whatever labels (and shellac colours?) were in use when
they were being pressed. As a result, one can encounter "Viva-Tonal"
pressings of old acoustic recordings, still under their old A-* catalog 
numbers!

Steven C. Barr