[78-L] Colored vinyl records

[David Lennick]

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> 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. 
> 

MacGregor also pressed some blue vinyl (opaque) 16-inch transcriptions. And 
some Lone Ranger transcriptions are on clear vinyl.

dl