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

[Craig Ventresco]

A good question to ask at this point is : Are there other Emerson 6 or 7
inch records that have autographs in the dead wax? I have seen many
Columbia and Fonotipia issues with this feature, but no Emersons......

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, <bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 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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