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

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

Alessandro Bonci signed (ABonci) on the bottom of the label and in the wax on his Fonotipia Records. 

Bruce 

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> 
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Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 12:21:07 PM 
Subject: Re: [78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No. 548 

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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