[78-L] Labels

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Jul 13 19:59:33 PDT 2013


I don't think the Scroll appeared in Canada till it was used on a Nilsson 
album, although the Canadian pressed Program Transcriptions had a variant on 
it. There's a site dedicated to Canadian record labels from all decades which 
I'm trying to find.

dl

On 7/13/2013 9:48 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> Can somebody provide a link to a picture of a Canadian Swing Classic?  I understand Canada never used the Orthophonic scroll, right?  Don't find many Canadian discs of any kind here in the Deep South.
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Dave was just curious about the Swing Classic designation being on only one
> side. I'm sure I've seen other instances where that occurred. And as for the
> batwing label, Canada used it till 1946.
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> On 7/13/2013 4:02 PM, Dan Van Landingham wrote:
>> I've seen Canadian Victors before;they were blue in colour with the bat wing design.The Victors I've had of Dorsey's "Song of India" had the "Swing Classic" on the A side only(Song of India) and none on the B side.I had a circa 1938-41
>> Victor 78 of Vic 25523 about 30 years ago.I can't tell you how long Canada used the bat wing design however.I saw them in an album in a North Bend,Oregon Goodwill store about a year ago.They were of Glenn Miller as I recall and the sides were from the early '40s.I don't believe they are a curiosity.
>> On Sat, 7/13/13, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com>   wrote:
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>>     Subject: [78-L] Labels
>>     To: "78-L at 78online.com"<78-L at 78online.com>
>>     Date: Saturday, July 13, 2013, 1:01 PM
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>>     We had a discussion a while ago about
>>     records that have different label styles on each side.  I'm
>>     holding a Tommy Dorsey record, Victor 25523, with a "Swing
>>     Classic" label on Side A, "Song of India", and a regular
>>     Canadian Batwing label on Side B, "Marie".  Is this a
>>     curiosity?
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>>     db
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