[78-L] Enrico Caruso Jr.

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> That's not a catalog number, that's a matrix number.  And that label is
> a custom pressing label.
> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>> Just a curiosity question.
>> Someone contacted me through my website about an Enrico Caruso Jr. 
>> recording from 1938 on Victor they had found in their father's 
>> collection.  It's Rigoletto.  There's also a youtube recording I found of 
>> it.
>> This recording appeared on the white batwing style label with catalog 
>> number BS 018893.  I didn't even know he recorded.
>>
However, Victor used the matrix number as a catalog number for "custom" 
78rpm records;
I have some vintage radio ads on 78's bearing BS* numbers!

Steven C. Barr