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

[David Lennick]

Ruth Lowe wrote "I'll Never Smile Again", "Put Your Dreams Away" and whatever 
the song was on this pressing (I'm not near it at the moment and I don't 
recognize any titles from the Tony Martin listing in Rust). It could have been 
a sample copy for Lowe although it turned up in a CBC cabinet, where it 
wouldn't have been broadcast because of Compo's radio ban in the 40s.

Compo was a big producer of transcriptions in Canada. Mind you, in the mid 30s 
they were on shellac..heavier shellac than their commercial pressings. Come to 
think of it, I have a number of test pressings by Max Boag's Skater's Band from 
the early 40s and these are all vinyl. Oversized, too.

I've seen Federal Symphony transcriptions pressed by US Decca and I'm sure they 
were shellac.

dl

On 12/4/2010 12:37 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
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>> Tony Martin singing a Ruth Lowe song, so it might have been a
>> special pressing for Ruth in Toronto. DL
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>> BANG! Was that a gun? Say, speaking of guns.... (old joke)  dl
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> START A NEW THREAD!!!   Sheeeeeesh!
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> Mike (or if it is a joke, go to 78-H) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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