[78-L] Chick Webb vinyl tests (was: LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.)

[Michael Biel]

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Subject: Re: [78-L] LYRIC Label by LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.
From: Dan Van Landingham <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, December 03, 2010 7:54 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

> I mentioned the Decca vinyl test as i was listening to the aforementioned
> Chick Webb CD.

WHICH aforementioned Chick Webb CD?  There are dozens of them.  This is
like coming into the middle of a conversation except when you abruptly
changed the subject you never started with the beginning of the
conversation. 

> I have never heard of Vinyl test pressings in 1940.

Did the CD notes SAY that they were off of a vinyl test pressing or are
you assuming that it is vinyl rather than shellac.  If they said it was
a vinyl test pressing, did they say that the pressing was made in 1940? 
It could have been made last week if a metal part survived.  Or are you
assuming that the pressing was vinyl because the CD issue was quiet?  It
could have been dubbed off of a lacquer safety that Decca -- like
Columbia -- had started using in the early 1940s. Or dubbed from a metal
part.  Or just a good restoration -- unless the CD specifically said
they used a vinyl test. 

But, to answer your specific question, vinyl had been used for ten years
before 1940 and there is a possibility that Decca did press a test on
vinyl either in 1940 or in any of the years after if there were metal
parts.  


> As for the Varsity recordings by Georgie Auld,

NO No NO!  This is another TOTALLY DIFFERENT subject and I will leave it
to the new subject line that David Diehl kindly started for you. Don't
go onto new unrelated topics without just doing a new posting.  Some
listers who are interested in the topics of Webb or Auld might have no
reason in the world to look at a positing of Lyric.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com