[78-L] Purple label Victor

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Jul 14 09:48:23 PDT 2010


Mid-price series, between black label and Red Seal. It became blue label when they began double sided discs. Electrical equivalents were eventually 4000s and 9000s (Red Seal) for cheaper classical recordings and higher priced celebrity entertainers (Harry Lauder etc).

 

dl
 
> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:42:06 -0700
> From: kenmath at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Purple label Victor
> 
>     I have a purple label Victor, 12 inch, one sided
> 78 rpm record, no. 70061. The sleeve has 1915
> on it. Most of the red labeled Victors I have ran
> across are classical. Could someone tell
> me what the significance of the purple label is.
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