Re: [Phono-L] Complete List of Blue Amberols
i second that In a message dated 8/8/2013 10:23:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pic...@gmail.com writes: How's about somebody posting it to a web page so all can enjoy it... ? Shawn ORourke wrote: If Dennis's doesn't work, i have a complete one in exel Shawn On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Terry Baer wrote: Hello. Does someone have a comple list of all Edison Blue Amberols including record number, title, and artist in MSWord or Excel or even TXT format that they could make available to me off-list? I do not want a PDF scan. Thanks, Terry St. Louis ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] R S O N tops
Hello Tony, Thanks. Steve From: mobilityscoot...@xtra.co.nz To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:10:03 +1200 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] R S O N tops Al, Ha ha What a Fantastic description. I totally agree with you. AT times I must ask Steve so fairy dumb questions but he always explains and answers. It is fantastic to be able to ask and to learn. Tony -Original Message- From: phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-boun...@oldcrank.org] On Behalf Of clockworkh...@aol.com Sent: Saturday, 10 August 2013 5:38 p.m. To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: Re: [Phono-L] R S O N tops Thanks Steve, it is always fun to attend the Medved University on line Reproducers 101 course... Kindest regards, Al ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] Complete List of Blue Amberols
The complete catalog can be downloaded from: www.carolinaphonosociety.comEnter the site and on the second page click on the PDF symbol to download it.If you run into any problems, please let me know.Curt From: zonophone2...@aol.com Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 06:09:23 -0400 To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Complete List of Blue Amberols i second that In a message dated 8/8/2013 10:23:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pic...@gmail.com writes: How's about somebody posting it to a web page so all can enjoy it... ? Shawn ORourke wrote: If Dennis's doesn't work, i have a complete one in exel Shawn On Thursday, August 8, 2013, Terry Baer wrote: Hello. Does someone have a comple list of all Edison Blue Amberols including record number, title, and artist in MSWord or Excel or even TXT format that they could make available to me off-list? I do not want a PDF scan. Thanks, Terry St. Louis ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] Link to Complete Blue Amberol Catalog Download
The complete catalog can be downloaded from: www.carolinaphonosociety.comEnter the site and on the second page click on the PDF symbol to download it.If you run into any problems, please let me know.Curt ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
Re: [Phono-L] Link to Complete Blue Amberol Catalog Download
The Enter is tagging onto your link so it breaks, needs a space between .com and Enter On 08/11/2013 10:10 PM, Vinyl Visions wrote: The complete catalog can be downloaded from: www.carolinaphonosociety.comEnter the site and on the second page click on the PDF symbol to download it.If you run into any problems, please let me know.Curt ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
[Phono-L] Capitol Records film
This came up as kind of an aside on another phono thread today, but I think it deserves its own thread. I had not seen this film before and it's kinda interesting. It was just posted on YouTube in June, so it's probably pretty new to the blogosphere. It has Mel Blanc leading a record customer played by Billy May thru the process of making a Capitol record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxkSRvkKF9k It was apparently put together as an internal company biz promotion sometime around 1951. See the poster's comments about this film on the YouTube page. The first part of it has Mel doing some schtick with May and sounding like Bugs Bunny which is kinda cornball, but the rest of the film is pretty informative. Some inside jokes to be seen, including a swipe at Victor early in the film where Mel takes May's hat and plops it on Nipper's head in a record shop (actually owned by one of Capitol's founders Glenn Wallichs) next to a poster offering Dog records for 4 cents each. Ha. Jay Livingston, president of Capitol at the time has a cameo, as do several other Capitol artists and celebrities including Les Paul and Mary Ford. Color film quality is good - this must have been a little-played long-lost copy stored in a vault for years. There is no mention of the Hollywood Capitol record plant, so I guess it hadn't been built yet when this film was made. But it came online within just a few years because I remember seeing it listed on the back of Capitol LP jackets in the late 1950s. The Capitol Tower was built in 1956, so the studios that are visited in the film are in a different building. The record plant tour is kinda mixed up as they show both shellac production of 78s and vinyl 45s all smooshed together in the dialog. They also show 45s with the 1.5 inch centers partially dinked out as was commonly done in Europe, but I don't remember this being done for US product. Record album book production for 78s and box production for the early 45rpm album boxes is also shown which I have not seen depicted on film before. It's interesting to me that there is no mention of wax masters, so evidently lacquers had fully replaced wax by 1951. Capitol was evidently doing copper laminated with nickel metal parts at the time. I know that RCA was using copper during the 78rpm years, but we migrated over to fully using nickel by the time I got there in 1973. I don't know if this copper/nickel laminate process was industry standard in the 1950s or not. Seems kinda wasteful to me as it makes it difficult to separate and recycle the metals after production. But this is an informative film covering record production in a period in the early 1950s that seems to be scarcely documented from what I've seen. Greg Bogantz ___ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
