[78-L] ALCO DISC label

[Bob Rice]

  Alco made RECORDS?!! I THOUGHT they only built locomotives, the famous 
RS-3, PA-1's to mention a few? GE bought them out, present GE lokies trace 
their ancestry to Alco., 4 stroke engines. American Locomotice Co, case ya 
were wondering<g>?

    Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Raymond" <jraymond at alumni.princeton.edu>
To: "78-L List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] ALCO DISC label


> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>> I have a set of 12" 78s on the Alco label, but it's probably a
>> totally different company. The date is probably from the 1940s - it
>> is a 12" album of 3 discs by the Compinsky Trio entitled "Encore."
>> All classical showpieces, like de Falla's "Fire Dance," issued on
>> Alco A-1. The label is green and the letters ALCO are spelled out in
>> large block letters. Don't have a scan of it here at work. I played
>> flute in an orchestra conducted by Manuel Compinsky back in the
>> 1970s, before I knew this set existed.
>
> I have a copy of the 12" Alco album A-2, titled SONGS BY EARL ROBINSON,
> SUNG BY THE COMPOSER and issued in 1948.  The labels are like what Cary
> describes above. Alco certainly is an obscure brand.
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> -- Jack Raymond
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