[78-L] Columbia blue on white labels, revisited

[David Lennick]

2938 (Cohen) sounds like an English catalogue number. I know I have it, but not 
to hand, and Rust lists it as Regal G-7066.

I've seen a few P-series discs with regular blue labels, including Midnight 
Attack and Arrival Of The Troops. I also have a multi-colour pressing of 
Midnight Attack with the wrong piece of music..easily detected since it's much 
shorter than the real side. It's another Prince's Band piece, and probably 
nobody noticed the difference.

Han, do you have any information on a later Columbia series issued in Canada, 
16000-D? Jack Litchfield is compiling a list of these and with no catalogues or 
print ads, identifying them is a matter of finding them and reporting them 
whenever they turn up. Most are electrical and from English and French masters, 
although I've turned up one acoustical one. Pressings are from about 1930 into 
the early 30s.

dl

On 8/22/2010 8:36 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
> I have images of both label types for Co(C) P-10, Prince's Band: The Midnight Attack/...Tipperary.
> Both 85c. Multicolor label with double (!) Note the Notes logo at left&  right of spindle hole.
>
> P-11 is a single-sided multicolor issue, mentioning Price 85c, but with notice on reverse:
> sold for 30c as sample for advertising.
> This is Prince's Military Band: Land Of The Maple (recording date / US issue ?)
>
> I have multicolor label images of (1 or both sides of) P-10, 11, 15, 25, 33, 35. Is full range known?
> Also multicolor 2938: "Cohen is arrested for speeding", by Joe Hayman. What is this nr?
>
> The Note the Notes logo was used in US in 1917 (I guess ca. Dec 1916 - Aug 1917), and then
> replaced by the Grafonola top logo.
> Are release dates for this Canadian series known? Is it possible that the Note the Notes logo
> was used in Canada before its use in the US?
> Possibly the blue-white label was a 2nd pressing, combining features of the multicolor label
> and the US Note the Notes label design ?
>
> The P-11 notice says: "Other Columbia Double-Disc Records range in price up to $7.50 and
> include a magnificent series of Grand Opera records...".
> Anyone knows examples of such expensive records?
>
> Han Enderman
> ===
>>>> I found another Canadian Columbia from the mid 1910s with a monochrome label,
> white with blue print. I doubt that it's a custom pressing, more likely
> from a period when materials might have been in short supply for some reason.
> And by coincidence I came across the same disc with a normal label,
> also a Canadian issue. It's a pretty common record,
> Arrival Of the British Troops In France, Columbia P-23 in the Patriotic Series
> (did this have a US issue?) from British matrices 29160 and (unreadable). The
> full color label, which is also on a white background, has a big Union Jack at
> the top between "Columbia" and "Record" and the blue-on-white label has a "Note
> the Notes" logo in that spot. Slight differences in the pressings (matrix
> numbers showing or not showing, ring inside the last groove or not etc). But it
> does suggest that other discs were pressed with this odd style label.
>
> dl
> ---
> US issue is Columbia A-1672.
> <<<