[78-L] Majestic Duraflex

[David Lennick]

> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:41:18 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Majestic Duraflex
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
> > Just DJ pressings as far as I know, since any I've found have come from radio station libraries. "Captain from Castile" sounds incredible on vinyl. Even better than the Mercury reissue. dl
> > 
> 
> Where these similar to the green label vinyl pressings of the Al Smith 
> Memorial Album which are the only vinyl Majestics I can recall? 
> 
> I just picked up me second copy of the Smith album with an illustrated 
> paper dust jacket over the regular green album. Can anybody think of 
> any other 78 album with a dust jacket like books have?
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 

Interesting..my Al Smith album is the usual crud. (Forgot it was on Majestic..I thought was on DeLuxe for some reason.) Any vinyl Majestics I've seen have had white labels, including Captain from Castile. And timings and publishers are shown on the labels but not on the civilian editions.

 

dl
> > 
> > 
> >> From: jcenderman at solcon.nl
> >>
> >> Were Majestic Duraflex issues promo pressings for broadcast, 
> >> or were they also available in shops?
> >> Lowest Duraflex nrs known to me are 1050 (Prima) & 1060 (Lunceford).
> >> Last known issue 1226 (Guarnieri), which is somewhere near the end of this 1000 series.
> >>
> >> The Duraflex label also occurs in the 7000 & 11000 series.
> >>
> >> Ty lists Majestic 1001-1271, but with many gaps after 1229.
> >> The last 2 images I have are 1231 (Eddy Howard) & 1271 (Rose Murphy).
> >> Any explanation for these gaps and the rarity of the last cat.nrs ?
> >>
> >> Han Enderman
> >> 
> 
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