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

[David Lennick]

For what it's worth, I have a vinyl Decca test from about 1941, made by Compo 
in Canada. Tony Martin singing a Ruth Lowe song, so it might have been a 
special pressing for Ruth in Toronto. All US Decca tests I've ever seen from 
before the late 40s have been shellac..I think Decca even pressed 
transcriptions on shellac before acquiring World.

BANG! Was that a gun? Say, speaking of guns.... (old joke)

dl

On 12/4/2010 12:04 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
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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>
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>> I mentioned the Decca vinyl test as i was listening to the aforementioned
>> Chick Webb CD.
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> 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.
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>> I have never heard of Vinyl test pressings in 1940.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>> As for the Varsity recordings by Georgie Auld,
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> 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.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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