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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Aug 2 06:59:32 PDT 2010


Indeed they were, pressed on the same Victrolac used for their long playing Program Transcriptions (and I've seen the web back on those as well).

dl


 
> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 06:26:27 -0700
> From: nickjay49 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Victor" embossed on the reverse record... ?
> 
> I don't get out much! What were the SH programs - radio shows?
> 
> best, DL
> =============================================================
> 
> 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.
> >
> > dl
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >> 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... ?
> >>
> >> 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?
> >>
> >> Jeff Sultanof
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Michael Shoshani<mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >>> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 16:54 -0700, Darrell Lehman wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Anybody know why this label has an "old" Victor embossed back? Using up
> >>>> left-overs? Seems like quite awhile to have them around?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 
> >>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=390221854175
> >>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>
> >>> 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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