[78-L] One Sided Red Vocalion Records..??

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <78records at cdbpdx.com>
>>> Just picked up a large collection of 78s and found among them a red
>>> colored single sided Vocalion record. I'm pretty sure I've never seen 
>>> one
>>> of these before. Is that normal??
>> Vocalion issued "red" records as a promotional "gimmick" during the
>> 1919-192? era!
> I'd say more than just as a promotional gimmick..all the classical 
> Vocalions
> I've seen prior to the merger with Brunswick are on red shellac, aren't 
> they?
> My set of Nikisch conducting Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #1 is on 2 double 
> sided
> red discs.
>
Well, all US Vocalions were on "red" shellac until around (or just before) 
the time
Vocalion was merged into Brunswick...and they heavily advertised their "red
records" at that time! As far as the original question...virtually all the 
labels which
issued classical records prior to 1922 did so on single-sided 
records...there are
even SF classical Columbias!

Steven C. Barr