Dating columbia 78 rpm records
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Help - Search - Members - Calendar. Dating old 78 rpm record. This is a picture of probably the oldest record in my collection, and I was wondering how old it was exactly. But also engraved in the wax is the following text: Also, according to the label, Columbia apparently won a Grand Prize in St. It is a single sided record, and since Columbia started making double-faced records in , my best guess is that this record dates from the period. Maybe one of you guys or gals can help me narrow this down?
According to Note The Notes: An Illustrated History of the Columbia Record Label - , your copy was made between Black was standard fare while blue was premium. The brown and green show E prefixed ones denote "ethnic" recordings and the examples below are Italian brown and Lithuanian green.
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While this is not new it was not common until now. To compete on the high end with Victor, Columbia introduced the Symphony Series in and continued into These labels looked very different from their popular record couterparts, were more expensive and some remained single sided long after the popular music discs went double sided. They also had artists listed as an "Exclusive Artist.
The next label change was the "gold band" label in and would last until Black and blue labels were used similarly to the Magic Notes label but black would disappear quickly and they went exclusively to blue for their domestic releases. The first logo of this style had the notes and Columbia in a circle at top with the words "Note the Notes. Again, the E prefix was for ethnic releases.
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For the example below I have German brown and orange and Lithuanian green. Fairly quickly they changed the Note the Notes statement to "Grafonola" in the logo. A couple slight variations in patent information is the difference in the first two. Last is a "Novelty Record" which, in this case, is gypsy music.
The earliest issues bore violet-on-white labels with credits rubber-stamped, but later issues used an attractive black labeL An early issue on a Clarion label drawing frmn these sides has been seen by the author, and other labels may well have been pressed using this source. Phonola pressed both laterally and vertically cut Okeh sides. See NYRL for matrices used. There was a inch series, but no data is known. The pre single sided Columbias did not have matrix numbers - the catalog number was the matrix number. Paramount M Popular: They are probably from c.
Columbia also produced advertising or sample records from time to time. The first example is from a couple years after they introduced their new Double Disc record on the Magic Notes label. This is the front and back of the record.
Hobomoko An Indian Romance B: Carillon In E Flat. Softly Awakes My Heart B: Peer Gynt Suite, No. The Death Of Ase. Since Poor Grandfather Died B: The Belfry Serenade B: Funeral March - "Marche Funebre. Dead March In "Saul.
Regimental Band Of H. Court Symphony Orchestra A: Under the Double Eagle March. In Old Madrid B: Miss Marie Blythe A: Vision D'amour Valse B: De Merry Little Niggahs B:
