[78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs

[Don Chichester]

In my limited 60 years of record collecting, I don't recall any Victor disc combining an acoustic on one side with an electrical on the other.  (I know, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue did, erroneously.)  Were there some?

 

Don Chichester
 
> From: soundthink at live.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:19:28 -0800
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs
> 
> 
> I'll check it out when I get home. From a cursory look, it doesn't appear that the catalog shows both paired sides of specific records. You have to know the titles, since they're all listed alphabetically. I didn't check to see if there were artist sections interspersed with the titles, as catalogs usually included.
> 
> 
> 
> Cary Ginell
> 
> > From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 13:09:55 -0700
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Victor catalog: 1st Orthophonic discs
> > 
> > From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> > 
> > > . . . the subject has come up fairly often about which electrical sides
> > > were paired with acoustic sides. . . . Many Victor records paired acoustic
> > > with electrical recordings. This catalog will document all existing
> > > issues of this nature to that time. Cary Ginell
> > 
> > REALLY??!! I thought when this subject came up it was determined that
> > the only example found was the promotional Canadian issue that Steve
> > Barr detailed. I know that Steve has this catalog -- him showing it to
> > us is in Leah's outtakes -- so I would think he would have gone thru it
> > to see about American examples.
> > 
> > Can you give us a "preview" of this catalog by giving us some examples
> > of these mixed issues mentioned in it?
> > 
> > Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> > 
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