Re: [ARSCLIST] Stereo records.

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Shoshani wrote:

> On Friday 16 June 2006 21.14, steven c wrote:
>
> > Shortly after 1923, Victor began offering phonograph-Radiola
> > combinations... using RCA-made radios...
>
> You know what? I completely forgot about that. Did they include radios? Or was
> that left for a third party installation? I also recall reading that
> Brunswick marketed acoustic phonographs with RCA Radios built in, so
> technically the RCA arrangement with Victor wasn't exclusive.
>
> > RCA Victor essentially "adopted" the history of Victor and its Berliner
> > antecedents when RCA and Victor merged in 1929. Around 1950 or so, there
> > was a special "commemorative" record pressed to promote the 50th
> > anniversary of their carbon-black supplier, which reissued "the oldest
> > record in the Victor vaults," a 1901 banjo solo
>
> I have this somewhere, a 7" microgroove 78 commemorating Huber Carbon Black,
> with Vess L. Ossman's "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" from Floradora.

Ah, good old Huber Carbon Black. You don't hear much about him these days.

> As I recall we had a discussion about this Ossman track on 78-L a few years
> ago...if memory serves, the usual gang of suspects (you, me, Biel, and
> Lennick) discovered that RCA actually reissued two different takes of this
> particular song, recorded a year or so apart, during this time - but probably
> not for the same commemorative record.
>
> Michael Shoshani

Thanks to Darrell Lehman, I got the 12" issue of it last month..red vinyl, with
Koussevitzky and the BSO doing Stars and Stripes Forever on the back. 1946 issue,
I think, commemorating the billionth Victor record sold (or something like that)
and claiming to be from the oldest master in Victor's files.

And it wows.

dl