[78-L] Colored vinyl records

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:07 PM 12/18/2009, you wrote:
>Ted Kneebone wrote:
>l perhaps 35 years ago.  Aeolian Vocalion put one of them out in
>red-white-&-blue to commemorate the "end" of of WW I, and something like
>7 colors to commemorate something else.  And there was a short-lived
>series of Pathes that mixed the red and black shellac.
>
>And as for plastic, one of the first plastic record, Flexo, put out
>their discs in a whole range of colors, some transparant and some
>opaque.  The 16-inch Flexo Brunswick ETs were transparent blue, and
>since the plastic was cellulose acetate, the labels told you to only use
>the special acetate needles.  Among other things, this led the idiots
>who worked in radio to call lacquer discs "acetates"  Durium's coated
>paper records were brown.

The 8 inch Langworth records with 2 songs per side were done in blue 
vinyl however the 16 inch discs with 4 songs per side were black.