[78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No. 548

[David Lennick]

Someone else signed over the grooves..might have been Sarasate. And that 
Chaliapin (hey, from Charlie Chaplin to Chaliapin) replaced the older recording 
and was in print for quite a few years as Victor 14901.

dl

On 1/9/2012 11:22 AM, David Weiner wrote:
> I think Patti&  Melba signed a few of their 1904-1906 discs. And I have an
> American Victor by Feodor Chaliapin of "Song of the Flea," recorded in Tokyo
> in 1936 and signed in the wax with extravagant flourishes by the singer.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
>>> --- On Mon, 9/1/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No.
>>> 548
>>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Date: Monday, 9 January, 2012, 4:21
>>>
>>>
>>> Signed waxes were fairly common in the 1910s (and earlier?), lots of them
>>> on
>>> Columbia..Casals, Hofmann, Weber and Fields come to mind, comedian Billy
>>> Williams on Jumbo, Walter Gieseking on Homochord (I think) in the 20s,
>>> Stravinsky on Telefunken in the 30s. Who else?
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 1/8/2012 10:48 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
>>>> This evening, a fellow gave me the 6" Emerson, No. 548, "The Peace
>>> Patrol,"
>>>> with music composed by Charlie Chaplin, and played by Metropolitan
>>> Military
>>>> Band (Irony right there). Noticed the dead wax includes more than the
>>>> matrix number, it has Charlie's autograph stamped on to the disc as
> well.
>>>> Was this common, done by other performers, composers? From about 1916,
>>> but
>>>> unsure of date.
>>>>
>>>> Dennis
>>>> __________________
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