[78-L] Decca blue label

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Banjo Bud" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> Can someone on the list tell me the date when Decca discontinued their 
> blue label, and began the familiar brown label?  I would further like to 
> know, if possible,  the title and artist on the last blue label offering.
>
This is all covered in my Dating Guide...!

Anyway, the blue-label 35-cent series was finally dropped in 1945; my DG
gives the last number, but I don't have it immediately to hand. There was
a single-digit revival/reissue of the 35-cent blue-label Deccas shortly
thereafter, though.

Decca, rather than raise its list prices, simply kept issuing pop hits on
more expensive series! Their first was the 35-cent blue-label series;
this was supplanted by the 50-cent 18xxx series (which ran to 18921)
and then the 75-cent "Personality" series which started at 23001. This
latter series ran into the mid 30000's.

Steven C. Barr