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

[Milan P Milovanovic]

Kiraly Erno, on Columbia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-27R7XDqo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 5:21 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No. 548


> 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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