[78-L] Victor label formats (was: Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc)

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Shoshani" <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
> On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 03:21 -0700, Michael Biel wrote:
>> As mentioned above, [the Bat Wing] label
>> continued to be used for over a year after the first electrical records
>> were issued, so the label type is NOT a good indicator of if the record
>> is acoustical or electrical.
> Indeed, it's also not a good indicator of when the record was recorded.
> I have more instances than you'd care to think, in which I own a record
> in its original very early (say 1904 to 1905) pressing, but I also own a
> later Bat Wing label reissue - often still carrying the hand-inscribed
> matrix number in the dead wax, a practice that Victor dropped over a
> decade before the Bat Wing label was introduced in 1921. In almost all
> those cases, earlier designations unique to the older label (the key in
> which the piece is performed, or the recommended playing speed) are
> omitted from the newer label.
> 
Victor put all the information into iys label area...which was removed
in the processing! Since Victor(C) did NOT remove the information,
their records often displayed things like recording dates UNDER the 
label!

Steven C. Barr