[78-L] LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.

[martha]

 I'd like to hear all these performances!  Perhaps you two can put together an 'album' to share ....



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Carli" <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.


> My 12" Lyric of _William Tell_ gets the whole thing in, _uncut_, on 2 sides very comfortably; good tempos and a 
> well-recorded performance. It usually takes 4 10" or 12", even on the Diamond Disc version (that's 2, incidentally, 
> substantially cut). That's why I think they used the Marathon-type grooving.
>
> P Carli
> ________________________________________
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Longwell 
> [glongwell at snet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.
>
> One last (for now) statement on the 9100 series Lyrics.  I had mentioned that only a few are known to be 12" with the rest 
> 10."  Well, I just came across 9105, a 10" record in my "to be listened to" stack and listened to the Poet and Peasant 
> Overture, which clocked in at 6 minutes.  They essentially crammed a 12" song onto a 10" record with the grooves just 
> about touching the label.  The opposite side I didn't time but it was no more than 3 minutes.
>
> Glenn
>
> --- On Sun, 11/28/10, Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl> wrote:
>
> From: Han Enderman <jcenderman at solcon.nl>
> Subject: [78-L]  LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.
> To: "78-L" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, November 28, 2010, 4:40 PM
>
> For anyone interested in the minutiae of label types it can be noted here -
> possibly for the first time in 90 years - that 2 different types of label blanks
> of the grey Lyric "cat" label exist, and both are shown at Glenn's site.
> The first label type (also shown in ARLIE with 4702) has no dots in the rim
> text after "AMERICA" & "NEWARK".  This type is used for all labels with the
> indication "Lateral" and still used for the earliest issues which replace Lateral
> by the price.
> Then a new label blank was made, with 2 (!) additional dots - i.e. the kind of
> difference I'm very fond of. Now the lower rim text reads:
> "LYRAPHONE CO. OF AMERICA. NEWARK. N.J., U.S.A."
> Also the position of the dot after "CO" is different.
>
> I mentioned Lyric 4701 with a price and now it is confirmed that this is a later
> pressing since ARLIE's 4702 states "Lateral".
>
> My last image in the 9100 series (no 9200 series known to me) is 9108,
> but contrary to 9107 it has a price of "In U.S.A. $1.25" (without Canada).
> Is this a revised later price, or is this not 12"?
>
> Han Enderman
> ===