[78-L] Ford (remove ^ - back on 78 content)

[David Sanderson]

On 2/3/2012 8:30 AM, Rodger Holtin wrote:

> To steer this discussion back on track for 78 content, I passed up my
> once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy a brand new 78 from the Greenfield
> Village gift shop.  There with the calendars, coffee mugs and trivets
> was a bin of 10” black vinyl 78s by Henry Ford’s Old Time Dance
> Orchestra.  The details have faded with my aging youth so I could be
> wrong about this, but as I recall they were on the “Ford” label (same
> logo), black label, silver print, with a border similar to “batwing”
> Victors, but clearly I do recall the unmistakable oval (VE) and the
> 19XXX numerals in the runout.  A seasoned collector of 78s for all of
> two years by that point, I was a few weeks short of turning a very
> mature 13 years old and didn’t think the waltzes and schottisches
> were up to my standards, so I bought a trivet – which we still use.
> I have always wondered about those records, and seeing them show up
> in the Victor Master Book pretty well answered for me that they must
> have been regular issue Victors early in life and perhaps a
> contracted pressing job in the vinyl era.  They were in plain brown
> sleeves, and a few of them looked a bit shopworn by late summer of
> 1963.  If anybody knows any more about the story behind those records
> I’d be interested in hearing it, and, to be honest, I think I'm
> mature enough for the waltzes, polkas and schottisches if there's an
> mp3 or utube available.
>
> Rodger

I've got some Ford recordings on Victor, and a set with a Ford 
Engineering Laboratory label, no logo; but these are early, I think, so 
likely the logo label was much later. I've never seen documentation on 
who pressed the proprietary disks, though I suppose it may have been Victor.
-- 
David Sanderson
East Waterford Maine
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