[78-L] Fred Waring Christmas Album

[Randy Watts]

There are record label copy sheets for 1949-1950 Decca releases in the Columbia collection at the Library of Congress.

Randy

--- On Thu, 12/24/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fred Waring Christmas Album
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 4:29 PM
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Decca's first LPs were cut and pressed by Columbia,
> > interestingly enough.  dl
> 
> This IS interesting.  While there is a certain
> resemblance in the hard
> vinyl and occasionally there are the fancy typeface
> stampings in the
> masters, I would never have guessed because so often when
> Columbia did
> client pressings the label paper color, typefaces, and
> layout are
> similar to Columbia itself.  For example, that early
> green label
> Westminster pressing you recently found.  But I don't
> recall anything at
> all on Decca labels that remind me of Columbia. 
>   
> 
> Not doubting you, but do you have any documentation to
> reference this? 
> I'd love to be able to pinpoint specific pressings! 
> In the RCA label
> books there are sample Capitol 45 labels, and I think some
> of the first
> Capitol 45s are clearly RCA pressings, but I don't think
> there are any
> blue cards.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.co