[78-L] SUN Label 78s

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Thu May 9 22:18:49 PDT 2013


AFAIK at 706 Union he had a Presto 6N overhead feed disc recorder on which
he made lacquer cuts, both for those wanting reference discs and for
masters for his releases.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Rjholtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Did Sam Phillips have a lathe to make his own disc masters, or was his
> disc work limitedt to the one-of market, such as the lone lacquer Pelvis
> supposedly made for his mother?
>
> Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng
>
> On May 9, 2013, at 6:53 PM, "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>
> From: Clifford Bolling <78records at cdbpdx.com>
> The SUN label I refer to here is the Memphis, Tennessee label
> where you hear very early Johnny Cash and Elvis recordings. CDB
>
> I think they all knew that -- they were just trying to fun you.
>
> Greetings. I have several SUN label 78s that exhibit 2 different
> font styles for the same song title and artist on different records.
> One record will have bold small font, the other a tall regular weight
> font. I assume these are the result of earlier and later
> pressings/printings. Is one style early and the other later? Which
> is which? Thanks! CDB
>
> Throughout the history of this label it was pressed in many different
> pressing plants, sometimes several simultaneously.  Occasionally it was
> because he didn't get his bills paid, and other times it was to get
> copies into different markets with a minimum of delay.  I once spent an
> afternoon at the Country Music Foundation Library where they had several
> hundred Sun 78s and maybe a thousand Sun 45s, going through them to see
> if there were any patterns.  There were no consistent trends except the
> labels almost universally had distinctly printed shading dots in the
> trademark logo.  Dots were not smeared or clustered.
>
> Yes there are occasional counterfeits, but rarely are they of anything
> but Elvis.  If the dots are smeared on an Elvis Sun, they ARE
> counterfeits. There also are some Cinderella issues -- things that never
> really did come out on Sun like the recordings only RCA put out, or
> those color vinyl Elvis 78s.  These were noted at the time in the
> collector press, but new collectors might not know about these issues,
> mainly in the early 80s.
>
> But to answer your question, they might not be earlier or later, they
> might be contemporary of each other.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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