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

[Michael Biel]

From: "Milan P Milovanovic" <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
>  Kiraly Erno, on Columbia:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-27R7XDqo

Thanks for this portal into some great Hungarian music on youtube.  My
father's mother (who I never knew) was Hungarian, and there were three
Kiraly records on green label American Columbia in his collection.  They
probably were the first signed master discs I had. Interesting to see
these picture labels.  There is an interesting outline of Kiraly and his
famous family by his grandson Robert J. Koster at
http://www.starcomp.net/rjk/family.html

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Signed waxes were fairly common in the 1910s (and earlier?),
>> lots of them o> 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