Hello Brad,
If an Edison record remained in the catalog long enough it can be found in the
earliest form, celluloid surfaces, and the last style of white label. I
believe Let Us Not Forget came out around the time when the surface noise was
the worse and I have seen it in white label on eBay but I did not pay attention
to which label it was.
I have My Bambazoo in celluloid and on the white label, both sound good with
the later one sounding a bit better. Too bad WWI caused Edison all the
problems with surface noise. (His chemicals came from Germany and the war to
end all wars ended Edison's sound quality for a while)
Steve
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:22:17 -0500
> From: mdsor...@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Let us not forget....
>
>
> Hi Brad,
>
> The first cylinders that came out of Let Us Not Forget did not have the music
> at the end. Essentially it is a 4 minute blue amberol with about a 2 minute
> speech on it. The later released cylinders have the additional music track
> added. This is actually the more desirable of the cylinders. There are at
> least a couple of takes. One you can hear a "bump" either at the beginning or
> at the end (I think it was the beginning) where either Edison or his
> assistant hit the recording horn. Also, I think on that same version, you can
> hear one of the recorders say "cut" at the end of the recording. These are
> the intersting variations that I know of. The cylinders were dubbed from
> diamond disc, but I haven't listened to my different diamond discs to hear
> the differences...I have just done it with the cylinder copies I have owned
> over the years. There was a special sleeve that came out with the Diamond
> Disc. I know that the first released diamond discs were etched. But you could
> still get that record later in the 1920's, and so could have a white label
> diamond disc. I have had 3 copies of Let Us Not Forget on diamond disc, and
> all 3 were etched. I wish I could find a white label copy, as the surface
> noise on these later diamond discs is so much more minimal. If you have
> Charles Gregory's wonderful set of books on diamond discs, check out volume
> 1, page 308 and 309 for a copy of the sleeve.
>
> Happy collecting.
>
> Mike Sorter, Riverside, CA
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Wright <esrobe...@hotmail.com>
> To: Phono L <phono-l@oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 6:17 pm
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Let us not forget....
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>
> hose are great questions -- I'd love to know as well.
>
> To: phono-l@oldcrank.org
> From: out...@aol.com
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:54:46 -0500
> Subject: [Phono-L] Let us not forget....
>
>
>
>
> I would be interested in any information on the "Let Us Not Forget"
> ecords--both Diamond Disc and cylinder. I recently picked up a nice Blue
> mberol long version with the Star Spangled Banner-- and have two DD's.
> Are there different 'takes' or pressings of these records? When was the
> peech actually recorded?
>
> Both my DD's are etched, but did it also come in a paper label version? Was
> here a special sleeve to go along with it?
>
> On the cylinder, what band is playing the National Anthem? and again, were
> here different versions?
>
> I know someone has researched this-- I'd love to know.
> Thanks-
> Brad
>
>
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