[78-L] quality control problems - Poor Vinyl

[David Lennick]

It was always lax. I can show you Columbia 78s from the 1910s, particularly 
green label ones, where one side is horribly off center, and a couple from the 
same series which have the wrong master pressed (Chinese vocal instead of 
Yiddish on one). And the other week I mentioned a ludicrous example of a disc 
whose labels apparently match the matrix numbers, except for prefixes, and 
contain totally unrelated music:

On 9/11/2011 11:20 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> For some years I've had an English Decca 78, M-532, labelled RHAPSODY OF JEWISH
> FOLK MELODIES, Parts 1&  2, identified as by the UKRAINIAN STATE ENSEMBLE OF
> JEWISH FOLK MUSIC, Conductor: FAINTUCH. Obviously I never played it until
> today. Imagine my surprise when I heard, on the first side, lush music by a
> theatre type orchestra, and all tunes by Fritz Kreisler. Even more surprising
> was a swinging version of "Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't". Matrix numbers on label and in dead wax are the
> same except that the prefixes are RR 8637/8 on the label and DR 8637/8 on the
> disc. So..somebody goofed major here!
>
> A side is DR 8637-2, medley of Fritz Kreisler tunes, no idea who plays.
> B side is DR 8638-2, Is You Is or Is You Ain't..Carl Barriteau &  His Orchestra
> (got this from Rust-Forbes).
>
> Weird!
>
> dl

On 9/22/2011 10:29 AM, agp wrote:
> I've not had any quality problems with 78s from the mid 50s going
> back. However, I have seen more defects in US 78s that were pressed
> at the end of the 78 era. I've had a few pressed in 1958 that are off
> center and a few with mis-aligned labels.
>
> I wonder if as 78 production began to dwindle, QC became lax as a
> result because no one really cared about the 78 by then
>
> T