[78-L] Monroe paste over label solved

[Michael Biel]

On 1/3/2011 2:53 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> Some stinker pasted a fake label on a beat-up lacquer I found in a junk pile.
> I'd forgotten that the label had probably originally appeared in the National
> Lampoon (I occasionally find those wacky MAD labels stuck on 45s as well). I
> was pretty mad when it didn't turn out to be a dub of a Lenny Bruce routine.
>
> dl

Of course there is a difference when you are ON THE AIR!  We didn't do 
it with record labels -- how often are you given a chance like the 
Monroe labels? -- but we would do it with tape cartridges of promos and 
things like that.  A couple of times when one of the DJs would crack up 
or do a blooper in a recording session we would dub the blooper onto a 
cart, put a label for the legitimate spot on it, and stick it in the 
rack.  They put it on the air, it sounds fine and normal -- for a while 
-- and then comes the crack-up or blooper and then panic ensues.  
Although we are careful not to include anything raunchy, that don't know 
THAT.  I have wonderful recordings of when we pulled that stunt on two 
good friends of ours.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> On 1/3/2011 2:11 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> On 1/3/2011 1:53 PM, Bill McClung wrote:
>>> I could not recall any pop RCA Victor 78 with a red label and emailed David
>>> and he couldn't as well.
>> Jimmy Durante (with Helen Traubel) A Real Piano Player.  And there are
>> some Gold Standard Series pop 45 EPs that were on Red Seal labels.
>>
>> But after my last posting I realized that some joker could have put the
>> Monroe Labels on some other record as some kind of warped practical joke
>> on the other DJs at the station!!!!  And that actually could have been
>> the point of my initial surprised question  "What Columbia record??"
>> It's 1954, you're a DJ, and you've just introed a new record by Marilyn
>> Monroe (!!!) and are just creaming over the photo on the label (really,
>> that label photo is worth the price of the new Mike Sherman Victor label
>> book), when SOMETHING ELSE comes out of your monitor speaker.  What
>> would it be??  Ruth Wallis?  UTC?  Dentist??? The mind boggles!!
>>
>> Let this be a lesson to you.  Learn to identify matrix numbering and
>> pressing styles!!!
>>
>> Mike (aren't we stinkers) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>> ____________