[78-L] Baldwin label for sale

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jan 22 07:50:42 PST 2010


It's still in use as Baldwin Street Music, from Toronto reissue producer Ted Ono.

To me, Baldwin Street conjures up memories of walking to school (we lived a 
block from Baldwin) as well as the smell of fresh rye bread from Silverstein's 
Bakery (which may still be there).

dl

Bob Rice wrote:
>   Baldwin Rekurds? We HAD Baldwin Locomotives and Pianos, too?Guess  it 's a 
> nice generic name, but it IS sorta dripping with history?
> 
>     RR guy here, too.
> 
>     Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Glenn Longwell" <glongwell at snet.net>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Baldwin label for sale
> 
> 
> Han - are you sure this is the 1920s Baldwin? The ARLIE disc only shows one 
> type of Baldwin with 2 colors but the book lists two different Baldwins. It 
> appears to me that the pictures on the disc are from the second Baldwin 
> which is from the 1930s and produced by Starr Piano. I don't see the 1920s 
> version on the disc produced by BD&M.
> 
> Glenn
> 
> --- On Thu, 1/21/10, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Subject: [78-L] Baldwin label for sale
> To: "78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7:07 PM
> 
> 
> In nearly 6 years of collecting 78 label images, I had never found a 1920s 
> Baldwin.
> I knew the label existed, since it is present in ARLIE (in 2 color 
> variants), just as is the
> even rarer Chautauqua label.
> And Max Vreede mentioned both labels in Storyville 89 (1980, p.183) in his 
> article on the Puritan label.
> But the latter label is so rare that it was misspelled 'Chatauqua'.
> 
> Both were "store"labels, produced by Paramount-connected BD&M, like Puritan 
> & Broadway
> (both also produced by NYRL) and Triangle, Hudson, Mitchell, National (from 
> NCC), Pennington, Resona,
> Ross Stores, etc.
> And now you can see one on ebay, # 390145412579.
> I am interested in info about releases on these rare labels, often taken 
> from Paramount.
> If you have items on these labels or can supply scans, please contact me 
> off-list.
> 
> Han Enderman
> 



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