[78-L] Fred Waring Christmas Album

[David Lennick]

That sounds like confirmation to me..as I say, I've seen a number of early 
Deccas which looked and felt like Columbia pressings. I wouldn't want to swear 
that Columbia cut the masters, but they certainly used their own equipment to 
print the matrix numbers and the labels were definitely not Decca type face.

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> 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
>