[78-L] Plastic Decca

[David Lennick]

Compo never had that dark translucent stuff. For that matter, Deccalite up here 
was a much sturdier product (and absolutely opaque black)..Compo had been 
pressing transcriptions and doing test pressings on good quality vinyl for 
years. But I haven't looked at those Eugene List records in years so I can't 
remember if they're solid opaque red or transparent red. WERM doesn't show a 
"special" number for the Rachmaninoff 2nd so maybe the "Plastic" edition was 
only in Canada..? I bet not too many people shelled out for it, since it 
probably cost double and ran five discs. Yes, I know, so did Rachmaninoff's own 
version of it, even in 1929 at $2.50 a disc, but List-Wallenstein ain't 
Rachmaninoff-Stokowski.

dl

On 10/17/2011 8:41 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Is it real red like a regular colored record or is it just slightly
> translucent showing reddish purple when light shines through?  The
> latter type were the unbreakable Deccas pressed in the former Vogue
> picture disc factory which Decca took over.  The ones I've seen like
> this are U.S. of course.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Plastic Decca
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
>
> As far as I can recall, they used the regular 29xxx numbers, possibly
> with a
> prefix..I haven't seen that List Rachmaninoff set for quite a while
> (have it,
> haven't touched it in the last few moves). They all had large labels,
> which
> Compo was still using into 1946. (Yup, that's right Mr. Bergen, we're
> kinda
> slow up here, yup yup yup yup yup yup.)
>
> dl
>
> On 10/17/2011 9:59 AM, Han Enderman wrote:
>>> What catalog nrs / series are we talking about?han enderman===
>> They also issued the Rachmaninoff 2nd Concerto with Eugene List on that kind of
>> plastic. Those are the only Canadian ones I've seen prior to the later
>> Deccalites of around 1949 and on.    dl
>>
>> On 10/17/2011 2:53 AM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>
>>>> But one interesting, (to me), record is a red plastic 12 inch record from Decca, (Wallenstein's "Warsaw Concerto"). The label is like a typical 1940ish Canadian Decca label except above the word Decca it says "Plastic" and below Decca it says "Vinylac". I've never seen another Decca record like this which surprises me since it must have been a series and these records are obviously "unbreakable under normal use" so there should be plenty of them around.    Does anyone know anything about this series?  db
>