[78-L] A few Vocalion questions

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Mon May 21 14:45:49 PDT 2012


This is an extremely valuable listing of information.  Double thanks! 
One little note:

From: Harold Aherne <leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>
> By the summer of 1935, the Vocalion label had changed to the scroll variant
> (more literally a scroll, one could say, that the Victor ever was!)

Internally at Victor it turns out that they called the label "Octagon". 
Scroll was a collector name.  I wonder who used it first and when?  Same
with "Bat Wing".  I never heard it before Mike Sherman's "The Paper
Dog".

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  



More information about the 78-L mailing list