[78-L] "Victor" embossed on the reverse record... ?

[Darrell Lehman]

I don't get out much! What were the SH programs - radio shows?

best, DL
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David Lennick wrote:
> I've seen that old backside (pardon the expression) on quite a few transcriptions and special pressings. Sometimes it's a later RCA one, sometimes I guess whatever happened to be handy at the plant. I recently saw it used on two 14-inch pressings from 1932 of early Sherlock Holmes programs.
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>> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:26:46 -0400
>> From: jeffsultanof at gmail.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Victor" embossed on the reverse record... ?
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>> The only disc that was pressed one side at a time and then glued together
>> was the laserdisc. Remember laser rot, which was supposedly caused by the
>> glue used to put the two sides together?
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>> Jeff Sultanof
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>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Shoshani<mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:54 -0700, Darrell Lehman wrote:
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>>>> Anybody know why this label has an "old" Victor embossed back? Using up
>>>> left-overs? Seems like quite awhile to have them around?
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>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=390221854175
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>>> There's no such thing as "left-overs"; the record is pressed out of a
>>> small block of shellac compound that melts and then pours into the
>>> grooves. Both sides, whether they contain grooves, decoration, or are
>>> blank, are pressed at once; you can't press one side, and then come back
>>> later and press the other side.
>>>
>>> My guess is that it was done so that the blank side would not look
>>> "empty".
>>>
>>> MS
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