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

[Michael Biel]

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Subject: Re: [78-L] Chick Webb vinyl tests (was: LYRIC Label by
LYRAPHONE, Newark NJ.)
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, December 04, 2010 12:17 am
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

> For what it's worth,

It is on-topic for this subject . . .

> I have a vinyl Decca test from about 1941,

. . .  unless it is a Canadian pressing.

> made by Compo in Canada.

Dooh.

> Tony Martin singing a Ruth Lowe song, so it might have been a 
> special pressing for Ruth in Toronto. 

Was she something special who deserved a vinyl test?  Actually, I think
Compo was doing a lot of vinyl at that point because the pressings they
did in 1940 of the Frank L. Capps recording of Woodrow Willson's 1923
Armistace Day broadcast were vinyl.


> 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.

One of the 1936 Norge ETs I have has a big bite out of it, and I think
it is shellac, not any thicker than a regular record.  But I just got
three Decca ETs from the Nauction and they seem to possibly be something
like styrene.  

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

START A NEW THREAD!!!   Sheeeeeesh!

Mike (or if it is a joke, go to 78-H) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  




On 12/4/2010 12:04 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
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>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> 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.
>
> 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