[78-L] Double-sided Zon-O-Phone

[Craig Ventresco]

I believe that there is not one instance of a double faced zonophone also
having been issued on Victor...Zonophone recorded scores of popular
songs--both vocal and instrumental--that Victor never touched. Their
records tend to sound looser than the Victors and the artists always seem
happier to me...for what that observation is worth. The collector of double
feced Zonophones will be rewarded by the many wonderful selections to be
found only on that label (including a great record by the Zonophone
Orchestra of Joplin's Wall st rag....

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Bryan Wright <bryan at claxtonola.com> wrote:

> I always assumed that double-sided Zon-O-Phone records from the
> 1908-1912 period duplicated material issued on Victor, since Zon-O-
> Phone records were Victor products by this time. However, I've
> recently been trying to track down recording details on one particular
> ZOP disc without much luck.
>
> Zon-O-Phone 5822 features Al Campbell and Arthur Collins singing "That
> Mysterious Rag" on one side and "The Santa Claus Song" by George P.
> Watson on the other. The record isn't included in Ty Settlemier's
> online database. I tried searching for the song titles in the UCSB
> online Victor database and found that Watson recorded "The Santa Claus
> Song" for Victor on 04/30/1907 but I could find no reference to the
> Campbell-Collins duet of "That Mysterious Rag." They recorded it for
> Columbia, but this clearly isn't the Columbia version. If this
> recording is exclusive to the ZOP issue, I'm wondering now if Watson's
> recording on the reverse is also a ZOP exclusive, or is it the same as
> the Victor pressing?
>
> Sutton and Nauck's Record Label Encyclopedia doesn't have much to say
> about the swapping of masters between Victor and Zon-O-Phone during
> the 1908-1912 period. Can anyone provide more details?
>
> Thanks!
> Bryan W.
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