[78-L] Gutter ball

[David Lennick]

I've seen lots of Boris Rose material..this looked nothing like any I'd seen. Interesting.

 

dl
 
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: dialjazz at verizon.net
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:37:22 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] Gutter ball
> 
> 
> Just came across another 12-inch disc with similar wording on the label
> > (Unbreakable, Noiseless, shadowgraphed steel or Sapphire needle) but 
> this
> > one is a heavy vinyl pressing, 78RPM with an oversized label. FLAT 
> FOOT
> > and MAD DOG are the titles, exactly as given, and a sticker I added 
> some
> > time ago identified these as the New Orleans Bootblacks from Columbia
> > 14437-D. The difference is that this label also identifies the
> > issuer--Vinylite Jazz Re-Issues, 211 E. 15th St., New York 3, N.Y.
> > Possibly this is the same source as the lacquers I mentioned. (Those
> > lacquers are dubs from 78s, but they could be old recordings or they 
> could
> > be a revival band recorded in a bowling alley..you know the sound.)
> >
> This is a Boris Rose product. If you had seen others of these vinylite 
> recordings, you would recognize the wording regarding shadowgraph, 
> noiseless, etc.I have not seen any 12-inch discs but have seen plenty 
> of 10-inch discs, some with handwritten strip labels. In some cases, I 
> have two copies of certain records, each with slightly different 
> labels. A clean, colored-vinyl pressing looks quite nice.
> 
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